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- Title
"Girls Are Retarded When They're Stoned." Marijuana and the Construction of Gender Roles Among Adolescent Females.
- Authors
Warner, Jessica; Weber, Timothy R.
- Abstract
Focuses on a study on why adolescent females continue to use less marijuana than adolescent males, with a particular emphasis on the normative boundaries that restrict females in their access and use of marijuana. Analysis of transcripts of focus groups which included students of non-European ancestry; Details on traditional gender roles; Ways in which retail distribution of marijuana favours males while inhibiting use on the part of females.
- Subjects
ADOLESCENCE; MARIJUANA &; society; GENDER role &; psychology; DRUG abuse
- Publication
Sex Roles, 1999, Vol 40, Issue 1-2, p25
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1018874216109