Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 270 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
041592412X
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020380032X
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0415924138
Content:
From the 1950s 'girl junkie' to the 1990s 'crack mom', Using Women chronicles the history of women and drug use, providing a critical policy analysis of the government's drug policies and recommendations these policies should take
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
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Regulating Maternal InstinctA Politics of Social Justice; Reading Drug Ethnography; Conclusion Postmodern Progressivism; Notes; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415924122
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Using Women : Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice
Language:
English
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