Recovering Women
Subtitle: Feminisms and the Representation of Addiction (Polemics Series)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780813391403
Subjects: Drug addiction & substance abuse; Women's studies; Substance Abuse & Addictions - General; Narcotic addicts; Sociology; Women in popular culture; United States; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Drug addicts; Drug use; Rehabilitation; Women
First sentence: The 1982 book, Edie: An American Biography, tells the story of the short, drug-addled, celebrity life of Edie Sedgwick.
Description: "Recovering Women: Feminisms and the Representation of Addiction seeks to clarify the status of feminisms in contemporary culture and specify the problematics of feminist recovery rhetorics that respond to the representations of women in cultural practices. The female "addict" - in film, literature, art, and academics - emerges as the exigency to the question of feminism and lays bare the intersecting vectors of power that structure recovery."--BOOK JACKET.