The purpose of this research is to comprehend the situations and agencies in play during the practice of dealing drugs described by the female inmates of the Chillán Correctional Center. The principal findings deal with the economic benefits related to drug dealing, but also the diverse meanings that these women ascribe to this activity; primarily, those related to their children and the possibility of gaining relative autonomy from their partners. Furthermore, we describe a transition from a hegemonic cultural machismo, which influences women to enter drug dealing in search of new resources without abandoning their traditional feminine roles, to a delinquent cultural machismo characterized by the structural stagnation to which drug dealing relegates these women, granting them greater risks, fewer profits and even less amounts of power.
Riquelme Ortiz, G., & Barriga, O. (2015). Drug-dealings mothers: Motivations on getting into the drug-dealing world of imprisioned women in the Chillan’s Female Prison of Chile. Revista Punto Género, (5), Pág. 42–58. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2015.37663
