ABSTRACT
Wendy Chapkis is an Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology at the University of Southern Maine. She is editor of two anthologies published by the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, Loaded Questions: women in the military (1979) and Of Common Cloth: women in the global textile industry (co-edited with Cynthia Enloe; 1983), and author of two books. Beauty Secrets: women and the politics of appearance (South End Press; 1985) and Live Sex Acts: women performing erotic labor (Routledge; 1997). Her current research is on medical marijuana use and the "War on Drugs" (Dying to Get High; co-authored with Richard Webb, New York University Press, forthcoming).
