Cultural ecstasies : drugs, gender and the social imaginary / Ilana Mountian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mountian, Ilana.

Series:

Concepts for critical psychology.

Concepts for critical psychology : disciplinary boundaries re-thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug abuse--Social aspects.

Drug abuse.

Drug addiction--Social aspects.

Drug addiction.

Women--Drug use.

Women.

Women drug addicts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this important contribution to the field, Ilana Mountian critically analyses discourses surrounding drug addiction, drug prohibition, treatment and prevention, and highlights new ways of understanding the role that gender plays in the ethics of drug use across cultures. The book analyses the discourses of religion, criminality and medicine, and shows how they, combined with key historical events, affect our views of drug use and drug users based on gender, race and class. The book draws on research from a variety of fields to provide alternative conceptual and methodologica

Contents:

Cover; Cultural Ecstasies: Drugs, gender and the social imaginary; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Conceptualising the social imaginary: Setting the theoretical ground; 3 Historical discourses of drugs; 4 Discourses of addiction; 5 Drug use and the social imaginary; 6 Gender in the social imaginary of drugs; 7 Drug policies; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-21903-X

0-203-09659-2

1-283-84389-7

1-136-21904-8

9780203096598

OCLC:

820011103