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addicted.pregnant.poor - Kelly Ray Knight

addicted.pregnant.poor

Buch | Softcover
328 Seiten
2015
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5996-8 (ISBN)
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In this ethnography of addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco, Kelly Ray Knight examines the myriad struggles these women face, as well as their encounters with social and medical institutions. She asks: what kinds of futures are possible for these women?
For the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against drug cravings, housing debt, and potential violence. In this stunning ethnography Kelly Ray Knight presents these women in all their complex humanity and asks what kinds of futures are possible for them given their seemingly hopeless situation. During her four years of fieldwork Knight documented women’s struggles as they traveled from the street to the clinic, jail, and family court, and back to the hotels. She approaches addicted pregnancy as an everyday phenomenon in these women's lives and describes how they must navigate the tension between pregnancy's demands to stay clean and the pull of addiction and poverty toward drug use and sex work. By creating the space for addicted women's own narratives and examining addicted pregnancy from medical, policy, and social science perspectives, Knight forces us to confront and reconsider the ways we think about addiction, trauma, health, criminality, and responsibility.  

Kelly Ray Knight is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. 

Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction  1

1. Consumption and Insecurity  33

2. Addicted Pregnancy and Time  68

3. Neurocratic Futures in the Disability Economy  102

4. Street Psychiatrics and New Configurations of Madness  125

5. Stratified Reproduction and the Kin of Last Resort  151

6. Victim-Perpetrators  178

Conclusion  206

Appendix  240

Notes  247

Bibliography  279

Index  297

Erscheint lt. Verlag 27.10.2015
Reihe/Serie Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Zusatzinfo 34 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sucht / Drogen
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-8223-5996-0 / 0822359960
ISBN-13 978-0-8223-5996-8 / 9780822359968
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