332 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
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From the 1950s 'girl junkie' to the 1990s '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... Read more
List of illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, The Politics of Women’s Addiction and Women’s Equality, 1. Containing Equality, 2. Governing Mentalities, Gendering Narcotics, 3. Primitive Pleasures, Modern Poisons, 4. The “Enemy Within”, 5. Representing the “Real”, Mother Fixations, 6. Reproducing Drug Addiction, 7. Regulating Maternal Instinct, A Politics of Social Justice, 8. Reading Drug Ethnography, Conclusion, Notes, Index
Biography
Nancy Campbell
