Women drug traffickers : mules, bosses, and organized crime /
In the flow of drugs to the United States from Latin America, women have always played key but rarely acknowledged roles as bosses, business partners, money launderers, confidantes, and couriers. Using international diplomatic documents, trial transcripts, medical and public welfare studies, corresp...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2014.
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Selling is more of a habit : women and drug trafficking, 1900-1980
- Foreign vices : drugs, modernity, and gender
- Mules, smugglers, and peddlers : the illicit trade in Mexico, 1910s-1930s
- The white lady of Mexico City : lola la chata and the remaking of narcotics
- Transcending borders : la nacha and the "notorious" women of the north
- The women who made it snow : cold, dirty, drug wars, 1970s
- Gangsters, narcs, and women : a secret history.