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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170990403321

Autore

Campbell Nancy Duff

Titolo

Using women : gender, drug policy, and social justice / / Nancy D. Campbell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-135-96104-2

1-135-96105-0

0-585-44893-0

0-203-80032-X

1-280-07111-7

9786610071111

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

362.29/082/0973

Soggetti

Women - Drug use - United States

Women - Government policy - United States

Drug control - United States

Sex discrimination against women - United States

Social justice - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction Drug Policy, Social Reproduction, and Social Justice; The Politics of Women's Addiction and Women's Equality; Containing Equality Biology and Vulnerability; Governing Mentalities Reading Political Culture; Gendering Narcotics; Primitive Pleasures, Modern Poisons Femininity in the ~Age of Dope~; The ~Enemy Within~ Gender Deviance in the Mid-Century; Representing the ~Real~ Girl Drug Addicts Testify; Mother Fixations; Reproducing Drug Addiction Motherhood, Respectability, and the State

Regulating Maternal Instinct A Politics of Social Justice; Reading Drug Ethnography; Conclusion Postmodern Progressivism; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

From the 1950's 'girl junkie' to the 1990's 'crack mom', Using Women investigates how the cultural representations of women drug users



have defined America's drug policies in this century. In analyzing the public's continued fear, horror and outrage wrought by the specter of women using drugs, Nancy Campbell demonstrates the importance that public opinion and popular culture have played in regulating women's lives. The book will chronicle the history of women and drug use, provide a critical policy analysis of the government's drug policies and offer recommendations for the direction