TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carey,Elaine
TI  - Women Drug Traffickers: Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime
T2  - Diálogos Series
SN  - 9780826351999
AV  - HV5840.M6 -- .C374 2014eb 
U1  - 363.45082/0972 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Albuquerque
PB  - University of New Mexico Press
KW  - Drug dealers -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Female offenders -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Drug traffic -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Drug abuse and crime -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Selling Is More of a Habit: Women and Drug Trafficking, 1900-1980 -- 1: Foreign Vices: Drugs, Modernity, and Gender -- 2: Mules, Smugglers, and Peddlers: The Illicit Trade in Mexico, 1910s-1930s -- 3: The White Lady of Mexico City: Lola la Chata and the Remaking of Narcotics -- 4: Transcending Borders: La Nacha and the "Notorious" Women of the North -- 5: The Women Who Made It Snow: Cold, Dirty Drug Wars, 1970s -- Conclusion: Gangsters, Narcs, and Women: A Secret History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
N2  - "The first full-length study of female drug traffickers. The lives of these women are fascinating and skillfully analyzed by the author. The book will be pleasurable reading to general readers and specialists alike."--Howard Campbell, author of Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez
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