
This 'landmark' Text By One Of The Most Respected Researchers In Drug Use Considers The Issues Surrounding The Gendering Of Drug Use, And Within This Looks Critically At Two Approaches - The Classical And Postmodern. Ettorre Examines The Idea Of A Drug-using Society And The Implications This Holds For Social Inequality And Exclusion. Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 The 'back Story' On Women, Drugs And The Body; 2 Feminist Theorizing About Drugs: Gender, Power And The Body; 3 Punishing Or Privileging Marginalization?; 4 Embodying Core Activities: Gendered Performativities; 5 Drug-consuming Bodies; 6 Drug-using Reproducing Bodies; 7 Contaminated Drug-using Bodies; 8 Embodiment, Emotions And Female Drug Use; Bibliography; Index By E. Ettorre. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 141-161) And Index. English
Page Count:
200
Publication Date:
2007-10-16
ISBN-10:
1403921741
ISBN-13:
9781403921741
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