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1 online resource (v, 350 pages) |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 10, 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode |
| Summary |
Challenging popular misconceptions of female users, this book is the first to examine how female drug user's identities, and hence their experiences, are shaped by drug policies. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; About the author; Introduction; Governing mentalities; Expertise ; Technologies of power ; A feminist sociological perspective ; A comparative approach; Outline of the book; Part One ; 1. Research context; Baby vessels and bad mothers; Psychopathological and emotionally disturbed women; Polluted and polluting women ; Passive dependents or emancipated lawbreakers? ; Rational agents ; 2. Political context ; History of prohibition; Punitive regulation; Neoliberalism, freedom and disordered production |
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The neoliberal welfare state, risk and responsibilityPart Two; Drug use as a medical-moral-legal hybrid; Drug policy discourse ; 3. Prohibition; Construction of the problem for government: protecting families, young people and communities; Unprecedented increase in the female prison population; Locking up the 'dangerous underclass'; Protection of young people and families through the incarceration of 'unfit' mothers: the impact on children; Irresponsible, unfit mothers: the criminalisation of pregnancy; Dangerous criminals and unrecognised victims ; Conclusion; 4. Medicalisation |
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Medicalisation of drug use and mutually reinforcing technologiesSocial control of pathological users ; Harm minimisation and the responsibilisation of dependent users ; Harm reduction, HIV/AIDS and female drug users; Harm reduction as social control: 'state-sponsored' dependent women; Recoverable, changeable, transformable women; Responsible and needy women ; A low priority, but requiring coercion; Conclusion ; 5. Welfarisation; Undeserving addicts; Denial of social services in the US; 'Benefit scroungers' in the UK; Benefit conditions in Canada; Welfarisation of drug-using mothers |
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Conclusion Part Three ; Technologies of the self; Ascription of characteristics; Normalisation; Responsibilisation; 6. Psychosocial accounts; A short-term solution; Contradictory characteristics; Irresponsible, disordered choice makers; Chemically enslaved addicts ; Dangerous, immoral, criminals, worthy of punishment; Irresponsible, unfit mothers ; Recoverable, programmable, changeable and transformable; Conclusion ; 7. Social stories ; Introduction ; Unrecognised pain; Rational, adaptive, caring, resourceful women; Victims of policy: criminals versus victims |
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Disciplined, normalised and punished mothersSaveable, changeable, programmable and recoverable; Conclusion ; Conclusion; Appendix: Research methods; Bibliography; Index |
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Women drug addicts -- Services for.
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Drug abuse -- Government policy.
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Women -- Drug use.
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Femmes toxicomanes -- Services.
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Toxicomanie -- Politique gouvernementale.
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Crime & criminology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Drug abuse -- Government policy
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Women -- Drug use
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Sociology |
| Added Title |
Women's experiences of drug policy |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Du Rose, Natasha. Governance of female drug users : women's experiences of drug policy. Bristol, England : Policy Press, 2015 356 pages 9781847426727 |
| ISBN |
1847426735 (electronic bk.) |
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9781847426734 (electronic bk.) |
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9781847426727 (electronic bk.) |
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1847426727 (electronic bk.) |
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9781447354727 (electronic bk.) |
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1447354729 (electronic bk.) |
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9781847426727 (hardback) |
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1847426727 (hardback) |
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AU@ 000054960327 |
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CHNEW 001057327 |
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CHVBK 569638879 |
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UKMGB 018798376 |
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AU@ 000075749913 |
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