Gender, Power and Alternative Living Arrangement in the Inner-City Crack Culture.

Most impoverished crack-abusing women are usually without a regular place to live, but most are not homeless because they find alternative living arrangements. Describes the common living arrangements for these women. Draws from a rich descriptive repository of field notes, field diaries, and transcribed tape-recorded interviews from two ethnographic studies in New York City, focused on crack users and sellers. (KW)