By Nancy Campbell
From the Nineteen Fifties 'girl junkie' to the Nineteen Nineties 'crack mom', utilizing ladies investigates how the cultural representations of ladies drug clients have outlined America's drug guidelines during this century. In examining the public's persisted worry, horror and outrage wrought by way of the threat of girls utilizing medications, Nancy Campbell demonstrates the significance that public opinion and pop culture have performed in regulating women's lives. The ebook will chronicle the background of ladies and drug use, offer a serious coverage research of the government's drug guidelines and provide techniques for the path our present drug regulations may still take. utilizing girls comprises such chapters as 'Sex, medicinal drugs and Race within the Age of Dope'; 'Regulating children within the Postwar US'; 'Fifties Femininity'; and 'Regulating Maternal Instinct'.
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Thus epistemological and ethical questions are embedded in the work of policy-making as surely as political calculations. It is the job of feminist and postpositivist analysts to raise and answer these questions. Rationalizing Risk and Blame: Narrative, Confabulation, and Definition Domestic drug policy centers on preventing or reforming individual behaviors such as demand for drugs, childbearing, or sexual practices. The narratives of drug discourse do not proceed as simple discussions of “fact,” but instead assess the moral and symbolic value of particular paths and patterns of risk and blame.
Courtesy of Hoffman-LaRoche Inc. 32 UsingWomen extended to reproduction, freedom from assault and abuse, and freedom from discrimination. Women’s claims for equality and political autonomy are contained by constructions of women’s unique biological vulnerabilities. A drug policy based on the principles of social justice does not naturalize sexual difference as a form of vulnerability. Instead, the recognition that women face economic insecurity and social vulnerability due to their uneven responsibility for social reproduction should be translated into a socially just drug policy.
Rather, drug abuse is constructed as a form of violence that women commit against themselves and those closest to them. ”29 Women, the report implies, lacked knowledge about themselves and their bodies and fail to keep pace with biomedicine. Thus are women constructed in a state of denial and ignorance, and biomedicine positioned as the agent of enlightenment. ”30 Popular culture, legal discourse, the scientific discourse of addiction research, and therapeutic discourse exhibit a series of assumptions about addicted women’s characteristics and needs.