UID:
almafu_9958093323402883
Format:
1 online resource (281 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-135-96104-2
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1-135-96105-0
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0-585-44893-0
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0-203-80032-X
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1-280-07111-7
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9786610071111
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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 Instinct A Politics of Social Justice; Reading Drug Ethnography; Conclusion Postmodern Progressivism; Notes; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-92413-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-92412-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203800324
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