Charting Women's Journeys

From Addiction to Recovery

Judith Grant (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

156 Seiten

2008
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1478-0 (ISBN)

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Addiction among women continues to be a vexing social problem with no clear solution. Individuals, families, and social organizations use various approaches to end addiction, ranging from social isolation and family enmeshment to formal detox programs, but results remain uneven. In this study of the recovery careers of female addicts living in rural settings, Judith Grant explores the ways in which twenty-five addicts engage in individual processes of self-recovery. Using feminist methods of inquiry and a Meadian theoretical framework of analysis, Grant follows the women through three distinct recovery phases as they slowly come to shift their understandings of themselves, others, and their social objects. Central to a recovery lies a process through which women reinvent themselves by altering their involvement with themselves, their partners, friends, and children, and of course their addictive substance. This book offers concrete solutions for policy makers and provides a refreshing measure of hope for the largely invisible population of individuals, both family members and addicts, who suffer terribly from this disease.

Judith Grant is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Justice, and Policy Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 1: Methodology Chapter 5 2: The Preaddicted Self Chapter 6 3: The Addicted Self Chapter 7 4: The Recovering Self Chapter 8 5: Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.3.2008
Reihe/Serie	Critical Perspectives on Crime and Inequality
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 241 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7391-1478-6 / 0739114786
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-1478-0 / 9780739114780
Zustand	Neuware