Revisioning women and drug use
Subtitle: gender, power and the body
By: Elizabeth Ettorre
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781403921741
Subjects: Women -- Drug use; Drug abuse; Feminism
Description: "The focus of Elizabeth Ettorre's book is on revisioning, an approach which enables us to let go of how we have seen women drug users in the past, in order to construct new perceptions of their drug experiences. Developed from a feminist embodiment perspective, which problematises gender, power, and the body, this approach upholds an anti-oppressive stance in which we complicate, as well as theorise, the concept of 'difference'. Female drug use is viewed as a form of embodied deviance linked with tasks of restraint, reproduction, representation and regulation."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-161) and index