Mafias, markets, mules: Gender stereotypes in discourses about drug trafficking

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Fleetwood, J. 2015. Mafias, markets, mules: Gender stereotypes in discourses about drug trafficking. Sociology Compss, 9(11), pp. 962-976. [Article]

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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.

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https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12323