Gender, Power, and Alternative Living Arrangements in the Inner-City Crack Culture Lisa Maher, Eloise Dunlap, and Bruce D. Johnson and Ashley Hamid did this study. The purpose of this study was to show the alternative arrangements that women in crack-culture environments make to survive along with their personal security. Two ethnographic studies were done in New York City over a period from 1988-1992. They sampled many women from low-income neighborhoods, different ages, race and ethnic …showed first 75 words of 548 total…

…showed last 75 words of 548 total…continually exploited by many of the men they stay with. There is also a great amount of degradation. This way of life is very hard to break free since many of these women are just cast off and are very much oppressed by these males and drugs. The imbalance of power can be seen and the crack culture for women goes in a vicious circle that many find it hard to ever escape. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**