Guest Editorial Gender and Critical Drug Studies: An Introduction and an Invitation Nancy D. Campbell 1 and David Herzberg 2 Abstract This introduction to conjoined special issues of Contemporary Drug Problems and Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, the journal of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, began with a 2015 symposium at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), organized by co-editors Nancy D. Campbell and David Herzberg. The symposium called for incorporating gender analysis into the rapidly developing scholarship on drug use, drug trade, drug science, drug treatment, and drug policy in the United States. The special issues showcase articles that are part of a vibrant body of historical, sociological, and anthropological scholarship that explores the differential effects of drug policy, focusing on how gender—in dynamic relationship to race, class, and sexuality—is integral to virtually every aspect of drug crises including (but not limited to) the relationship between drug policy, drug treatment, and the development of mass incarceration. Gender matters at every level from the intimate and highly personalized to the broad cultural and political forces that disparately apportion vulnerability within drug commerce and the U.S. prison–industrial complex. Keywords gender, feminism, history, embodiment, women, social contexts These conjoined special issues of Contemporary Drug Problems and Social History of Alcohol and Drugs (see Appendix for table of contents) began with a 2015 symposium at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), organized by co-editors Nancy D. Campbell and David Herzberg. The symposium called for incorporating gender analysis into the rapidly devel- oping scholarship on drug use, drug trade, drug science, drug treatment, and drug policy in the United States. Revitalized recently as part of a broader reckoning with the United States’ ongoing legacy of racialized criminalization and mass incarceration, a vibrant body of historical, sociological, and anthropological scholarship now explores the racial dimensions of drugs and crime in America (Alex- ander, 2010; Lusanne, 1991; Mauer, 1999; Murch, 2015; Thompson, 2010). This work has contributed 1 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA 2 University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA Received September 26, 2017. Accepted for publication October 01, 2017. Corresponding Author: Nancy D. Campbell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180, USA. Email: campbell@rpi.edu Contemporary Drug Problems 2017, Vol. 44(4) 251-264 ª The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0091450917738075 journals.sagepub.com/home/cdx