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Women Drug Traffickers : Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Diálogos SeriesPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (311 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826351999
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women Drug TraffickersDDC classification:
  • 363.45082/0972
LOC classification:
  • HV5840.M6 -- .C374 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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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.

"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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