Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women Book

Contents
• Foreword (Johnnetta B. Cole)
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Social and Economic Precursors of Crack Use in Inner Cities
• Crack Use and Women
• Crack Use and Pregnancy
• Crack Use and Motherhood
• The Atlanta Crack Scene
• Chapter 2. Bearing the Legacy of Social Change: A Theory of Gender Roles Among the Inner-City Poor
• Gender Role Origins
• Slavery and Gender Roles
• Segregation and Gender Roles: Significance of the Sharecropping System
• The Desegregation Era: Proliferation of a Ghetto Subculture and Increased Gender Role Tension
• Late-Century Changes in Social Policy: 1980s and 1990s
• Analysis of the Influence of Crack on Gender Roles
• Chapter 3. The Crack Culture and Its Roles: The Complexities of Crack Prostitution
• Addict's Roles
• The Crack Culture
• Crack Houses
• Crack House Roles and Rules
• The Role of Black Women in the Crack Culture
• Crack Roles versus Gender Roles
• Gender Relationships in the Crack Culture
• Defining Sex-for-Crack Exchange
• Chapter 4. A Picture of the Women
• Identification of the Women Studied
• Women Who Exchanged Sex for Crack
• Sex-for-Crack Pregnancies and Their Outcomes
• Women Who Became Pregnant
• Chapter 5. Lives of Women Who Exchange Sex for Crack
• Stressed Life Situations
• Difficult Beginnings: Lives Before Crack
• The Crack Transformation
• Chapter 6. Exchanging Sex for Crack andSexual Risk Taking
• Sex for Crack Initiation: Transition from Quasi-Relationships to Prostitution
• Sexual Risk Taking
• Role Negotiation: Partner Selection, Power, and Control
• Chapter 7. Sex-for-Crack Pregnancies
• The Women and Their Pregnancies
• Issues Influencing Pregnancy Responses
• Child Loss
• Chapter 8. Sex-for-Crack Children
• Life Circumstances of Sex-for-Crack Children
• Children's Relationships with Family Members
• Mothering Sex-for-Crack Children
• Abuse, Neglect, and Abandonment
• Chapter 9. Discussion, Conclusions, and Policy Suggestions
• Discussion
• Sex-for-Crack Pregnancies and Their Outcomes
• Awareness of Risk
• Child Loss and Custody Issues
• Crack Use, Motherhood, and Opportunity Structure
• Life Quality of Sex-for-Crack Children
• Discussion of Related Issues
• Social Structure and the Legacy of Social Change
• Crack and Gender Roles
• Policy Suggestions
• Conclusions
• Chapter 10. Method Notes
• Overview
• Background and Project Sequence
• Project-Participant Profile
• Screening and Sampling Processes
• Ethnography
• Human Subjects' Concerns
• Data Analysis
• Glossary
• References
• Index