The governance of female drug users : women's experiences of drug policy / / Natasha Du Rose [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Du Rose Natasha |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bristol, : Policy Press, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (v, 350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 362.29092 |
Soggetto topico |
Women drug addicts - Services for
Women - Drug use Drug abuse - Government policy |
Soggetto non controllato | Sociology |
ISBN |
1-4473-3446-9
1-4473-5472-9 1-4473-0783-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Acknowledgements; About the author; Introduction; Governing mentalities; Expertise ; Technologies of power ; A feminist sociological perspective ; A comparative approach; Outline of the book; Part One ; 1. Research context; Baby vessels and bad mothers; Psychopathological and emotionally disturbed women; Polluted and polluting women ; Passive dependents or emancipated lawbreakers? ; Rational agents ; 2. Political context ; History of prohibition; Punitive regulation; Neoliberalism, freedom and disordered production
The neoliberal welfare state, risk and responsibilityPart Two; Drug use as a medical-moral-legal hybrid; Drug policy discourse ; 3. Prohibition; Construction of the problem for government: protecting families, young people and communities; Unprecedented increase in the female prison population; Locking up the 'dangerous underclass'; Protection of young people and families through the incarceration of 'unfit' mothers: the impact on children; Irresponsible, unfit mothers: the criminalisation of pregnancy; Dangerous criminals and unrecognised victims ; Conclusion; 4. Medicalisation Medicalisation of drug use and mutually reinforcing technologiesSocial control of pathological users ; Harm minimisation and the responsibilisation of dependent users ; Harm reduction, HIV/AIDS and female drug users; Harm reduction as social control: 'state-sponsored' dependent women; Recoverable, changeable, transformable women; Responsible and needy women ; A low priority, but requiring coercion; Conclusion ; 5. Welfarisation; Undeserving addicts; Denial of social services in the US; 'Benefit scroungers' in the UK; Benefit conditions in Canada; Welfarisation of drug-using mothers Conclusion Part Three ; Technologies of the self; Ascription of characteristics; Normalisation; Responsibilisation; 6. Psychosocial accounts; A short-term solution; Contradictory characteristics; Irresponsible, disordered choice makers; Chemically enslaved addicts ; Dangerous, immoral, criminals, worthy of punishment; Irresponsible, unfit mothers ; Recoverable, programmable, changeable and transformable; Conclusion ; 7. Social stories ; Introduction ; Unrecognised pain; Rational, adaptive, caring, resourceful women; Victims of policy: criminals versus victims Disciplined, normalised and punished mothersSaveable, changeable, programmable and recoverable; Conclusion ; Conclusion; Appendix: Research methods; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996517769703316 |
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Bristol, : Policy Press, 2015 | ||
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The governance of female drug users : women's experiences of drug policy / / Natasha Du Rose [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Du Rose Natasha |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bristol, : Policy Press, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (v, 350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 362.29092 |
Soggetto topico |
Women drug addicts - Services for
Women - Drug use Drug abuse - Government policy |
Soggetto non controllato | Sociology |
ISBN |
1-4473-3446-9
1-4473-5472-9 1-4473-0783-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Acknowledgements; About the author; Introduction; Governing mentalities; Expertise ; Technologies of power ; A feminist sociological perspective ; A comparative approach; Outline of the book; Part One ; 1. Research context; Baby vessels and bad mothers; Psychopathological and emotionally disturbed women; Polluted and polluting women ; Passive dependents or emancipated lawbreakers? ; Rational agents ; 2. Political context ; History of prohibition; Punitive regulation; Neoliberalism, freedom and disordered production
The neoliberal welfare state, risk and responsibilityPart Two; Drug use as a medical-moral-legal hybrid; Drug policy discourse ; 3. Prohibition; Construction of the problem for government: protecting families, young people and communities; Unprecedented increase in the female prison population; Locking up the 'dangerous underclass'; Protection of young people and families through the incarceration of 'unfit' mothers: the impact on children; Irresponsible, unfit mothers: the criminalisation of pregnancy; Dangerous criminals and unrecognised victims ; Conclusion; 4. Medicalisation Medicalisation of drug use and mutually reinforcing technologiesSocial control of pathological users ; Harm minimisation and the responsibilisation of dependent users ; Harm reduction, HIV/AIDS and female drug users; Harm reduction as social control: 'state-sponsored' dependent women; Recoverable, changeable, transformable women; Responsible and needy women ; A low priority, but requiring coercion; Conclusion ; 5. Welfarisation; Undeserving addicts; Denial of social services in the US; 'Benefit scroungers' in the UK; Benefit conditions in Canada; Welfarisation of drug-using mothers Conclusion Part Three ; Technologies of the self; Ascription of characteristics; Normalisation; Responsibilisation; 6. Psychosocial accounts; A short-term solution; Contradictory characteristics; Irresponsible, disordered choice makers; Chemically enslaved addicts ; Dangerous, immoral, criminals, worthy of punishment; Irresponsible, unfit mothers ; Recoverable, programmable, changeable and transformable; Conclusion ; 7. Social stories ; Introduction ; Unrecognised pain; Rational, adaptive, caring, resourceful women; Victims of policy: criminals versus victims Disciplined, normalised and punished mothersSaveable, changeable, programmable and recoverable; Conclusion ; Conclusion; Appendix: Research methods; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910321054803321 |
Du Rose Natasha
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Bristol, : Policy Press, 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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