Using women : gender, drug policy, and social justice / Nancy D. Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Nancy Duff.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Drug use--United States.

Women.

Women--Drug use.

United States.

Women--Government policy--United States.

Women--Government policy.

Drug control--United States.

Drug control.

Sex discrimination against women--United States.

Sex discrimination against women.

Social justice--United States.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

x, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2000.

Summary:

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 regulating women's lives. The book will chronicle the history of women and drug use, provide a critical policy analysis of the government's drug policies and offer recommendations for the direction our current drug policies should take. "Using Women" includes such chapters as Sex, Drugs and Race in the Age of Dope; Regulating Adolescents in the Postwar U.S.; Fifties Femininity; and Regulating Maternal Instinct.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-259) and index.

ISBN:

041592412X

0415924138

OCLC:

43095844