Cultural ecstasies : drugs, gender and the social imaginary / / Ilana Mountian

• Autore: Mountian Ilana
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (169 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.29
• Soggetto topico: Drug abuse - Social aspects; Drug addiction - Social aspects; Women - Drug use; Women drug addicts
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Cultural Ecstasies: Drugs, gender and the social imaginary; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Conceptualising the social imaginary: Setting the theoretical ground; 3 Historical discourses of drugs; 4 Discourses of addiction; 5 Drug use and the social imaginary; 6 Gender in the social imaginary of drugs; 7 Drug policies; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this important contribution to the field, Ilana Mountian critically analyses discourses surrounding drug addiction, drug prohibition, treatment and prevention, and highlights new ways of understanding the role that gender plays in the ethics of drug use across cultures. The book analyses the discourses of religion, criminality and medicine, and shows how they, combined with key historical events, affect our views of drug use and drug users based on gender, race and class. The book draws on research from a variety of fields to provide alternative conceptual and methodologica
• Titolo autorizzato: Cultural ecstasies
• ISBN: 1-136-21903-X; 0-203-09659-2; 1-283-84389-7; 1-136-21904-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786445303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Concepts for critical psychology.