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Mafias, Markets, Mules: Gender Stereotypes in Discourses About Drug Trafficking[Note 1. This article demonstrates that public and political discourses about ...]
Author(s) -
Fleetwood Jennifer
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
sociology compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 31
ISSN - 1751-9020
DOI - 10.1111/soc4.12323
Subject(s) - drug trafficking , politics , limiting , criminology , gender studies , sociology , drug , political science , law , psychology , psychiatry , mechanical engineering , engineering
Popular and political discourses about drug trafficking are premised on a gender binary based on sexist stereotypes. Simply put, popular and political discourses about drug trafficking tend to describe men as the brains and women as mere bodies. Academic research on drug mules and drug trafficking tends to rely on, rather than problematise, this gender binary, limiting contemporary enquiry and knowledge about drug trafficking. Furthermore, this gendered binary informs anti‐drug trafficking policy international in harmful ways.