Dangerous Love

"Jennifer Leigh Syvertsen has done everything right in Dangerous Love. Too often, social and behavioral scientists studying drug use avoid describing the affective aspects of drug-using behavior. Syvertsen, rather than averting her eyes, seeks to understand these lives and help the reader to understand."--J. Bryan Page, Professor of Anthropology, University of Miami "Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews in Tijuana, Dangerous Love includes intimate (in this case, male) partners, an element that is usually missing in the qualitative study of drug use--and rare in the study of sex work. By examining female-male partnerships and relational repertoires, Syvertsen makes novel and important contributions to our thinking about how intimate relationships give rise to dangerous safe havens and how these both shape, and are shaped by, lived experiences."--Lisa Maher, author of Sexed Work: Gender, Race, and Resistance in a Brooklyn Drug Market