Gendering addiction [electronic resource] : the politics of drug treatment in a neurochemical world / Nancy Campbell, Elizabeth Ettorre.
2011
HV5824.W6 C347 2011eb
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Gendering addiction [electronic resource] : the politics of drug treatment in a neurochemical world / Nancy Campbell, Elizabeth Ettorre.
ISBN
9780230314245 (electronic bk.)
9780230228559
9780230228559
Publication Details
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 253 p.)
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HV5824.W6 C347 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.86/06082
Summary
Gendering Addiction brings to bear the ideas of feminist sociology of knowledge, situated knowledge and ignorance, and standpoint epistemologies upon an injustice that has grave consequences for the human rights of drug-using women. Despite concerted efforts since the 1970s, most women who need drug treatment in the US and UK still do not<=receive it7because of ways treatment is delivered. This book examines ongoing attempts to meet a basic need that has not been met. Knowledge-making practices in drug research and treatment make it resistant to the gendered, classed and racialized power differentials that structure the lives of drug-using women. Without such knowledge, what we need to know about women's specific needs will continue to not to be known. A critical historical and sociological framework is crafted showing how feminist knowledge production is a promising route for overcoming the pervasive 'epistemology of ignorance' that prevails.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Ettorre, Elizabeth, 1948-
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Table of Contents
Getting gender on the agenda: a history of pioneers in drug treatment for women
Raising consciousness or controlling women? Women's drug and alcohol treatment re-emerges
Undue burdens: the emergence of feminist treatment advocacy in a masculinist system
'Unearthing women' in drug policy: where do women fit-or do they?
Reproducing bodies and governing motherhood: drug-using women and reproductive loss.
Raising consciousness or controlling women? Women's drug and alcohol treatment re-emerges
Undue burdens: the emergence of feminist treatment advocacy in a masculinist system
'Unearthing women' in drug policy: where do women fit-or do they?
Reproducing bodies and governing motherhood: drug-using women and reproductive loss.