TY - JOUR AU - Dingel, Molly PY - 2015/04/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Women and Drug Use JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/women-and-drug-use SP - AB - Understanding how race, class, and gender operate and re/create inequality is an important topic for sociologists. The PowerPoint and notes describe a strategy for illuminating the way large structures of inequality color the way we perceive deviant behavior. Pregnancy increases societal concern over women’s drug use, which brings the role of race and class into sharper focus. The first part of the class focuses on an article written by Kristen Springer (2010), and includes an overview of the effect of various drugs on fetuses, and the competing ways that we have for understanding drug use in women. The second part of the course explores an extremely controversial program run by Project Prevention, which provides poor women $200 to either be sterilized, or use a long-term birth control product, like the IUD. The slides and notes below provide resources to help facilitate a discussion on this program that explores race, class, pregnancy, and drug use. These resources include quotes from Project Prevention on their goals, and articles that critique this program. ER -