The governance of female drug users : women's experiences of drug policy / Natasha Du Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Du Rose, Natasha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women drug addicts--Services for.

Women drug addicts.

Women--Drug use.

Women.

Drug abuse--Government policy.

Drug abuse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol Policy Press 2015

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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

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

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

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

Disciplined, normalised and punished mothersSaveable, changeable, programmable and recoverable; Conclusion ; Conclusion; Appendix: Research methods; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Mar 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)

ISBN:

9781447334460

1447334469

9781447354727

1447354729

9781447307839

1447307836

OCLC:

1229581293