Women’s Drug Use in Everyday Life

Emma Eleonorasdotter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIII, 352 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed. 2024
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-46056-2 (ISBN)

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This open access book explores the increasing role of psychoactive substances in contemporary everyday life, focussing on women's use. Drawing on an ethnographic study in Sweden, it uses cultural studies and queer phenomenology to analyse the women's narratives of drug use relating to themes that encompass social, legal, cultural, embodied and gendered perspectives on drugs in the contemporary Western world. It examines topics such as stigma, happiness, children, the body, gifts, the drug market, medication, sickness and health and also the orientation of themselves towards others, to social and cultural norms, to drug laws and to the substances. It discusses how drug related spaces and directions be analysed in terms of gender and class, and how, in turn, the directions of contemporary society and culture can be affected by drug use. It speaks to academics in Sociology, Criminology, Ethnology, Gender studies, Law and History.

lt;p>Emma Eleonorasdotter is Lecturer in Ethnology at Lund University, Sweden. She is an ethnologist and a cultural analyst interested in everyday lives and inequality. She has been the executive editor for the Swedish, anti-racist, cultural magazine Mana for five years.

1. Introduction.- 2. Drugs in historical and contemporary contexts: Legal, cultural, scientific, and geographical.- Drugs and medications.- 4. Meeting points.- 5. Possessing drugs.- 6. Avoiding The Junkie.- 7. Staying appropriate.- 8. Behaving with children.- 8. Behaving with children.- 10. Appropriate drugs.- 11. Negotiating addiction.- 12. Happy using drugs?.- 13. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.12.2023
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 352 p. 2 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
Schlagworte	addiction • Cultural Sociology • drug problems • drugs and culture • Drugs and gender • drugs and society • illegal substances • open access • queer phenomenology • Queer Theory • Social Problems • Social Work • substance abuse • Substance Use
ISBN-10	3-031-46056-1 / 3031460561
ISBN-13	978-3-031-46056-2 / 9783031460562
Zustand	Neuware