Terry Williams

I got the opportunity to hear Terry Williams speak twice. Once during class and the other Tuesday night. After reading his book The Cocaine Kids the class at many burning question for. One of them was very gendered oriented. At of the main kids who were dealers only one was female. Of my own knowledge I understood that many of the people involved in the drug business are men. What I don't why. Is it because the drug business is seen as to aggressive for them or does it still play into gender stereotypes. If some one is involved with the drug trade that takes away from the domestic duties.

In the book, Kitty (the female involved in the drug trade) is not seen as a domestic caretaker. While she has a kid, it is left with her mother most of the time. This place into my claim that men don't want women to be involved because it goes against traditional values of how men and women are viewed.

He did not directly talk about gender in the lecture he gave but the studies he does must have lots of good observations on how gender plays into the everyday life. I enjoyed is talking but I can't find any article to link his speech up with.

Maybe if Meghan McCain came I could have been talking about men and women involved in the republican party. I think that would have been really interesting to hear or perspective on Gender plays in to politics epically with the younger generations.