Gendering Addiction

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Making Gender Matter: Drug-Using Women, Embodiment, and the Epistemologies of Ignorance

   1. Introduction: Making Gender Matter: Drug-Using Women, Embodiment, and the Epistemologies of Ignorance

      • Nancy D. Campbell, Elizabeth Ettorre

      Pages 1-26

3. Reinventing the Wheel

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Getting Gender on the Agenda: A History of Pioneers in Drug Treatment for Women in the United States and the United Kingdom

      • Nancy D. Campbell, Elizabeth Ettorre

      Pages 29-51

   3. Raising Consciousness or Controlling Women? Women’s Drug and Alcohol Treatment Re-Emerges

      • Nancy D. Campbell, Elizabeth Ettorre

      Pages 52-74

   4. Undue Burdens: The Emergence of Feminist Treatment Advocacy in a Masculinist System

      • Nancy D. Campbell, Elizabeth Ettorre

      Pages 75-119

4. Gendering the Governing Mentalities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-124

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   2. ‘Unearthing Women’ in Drug Policy: Where Do Women Fit — Or Do They?

      • Nancy D. Campbell, Elizabeth Ettorre

      Pages 125-156

   3. Reproducing Bodies and Governing Motherhood: Drug-Using Women and Reproductive Loss

      • Nancy D. Campbell, Elizabeth Ettorre

      Pages 157-181

   4. Conclusion: Making Gender Matter in an Age of Neurochemical Selves

      • Nancy D. Campbell, Elizabeth Ettorre

      Pages 182-202

5. Back Matter

   Pages 203-253

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This study, by two leading scholars in the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studies to uncover a basic injustice for the human rights of drug-using women: most women who need drug treatment in the US and UK do not get it. Why not?

• addiction
• alcohol
• feminism
• gender
• human rights
• politics
• women
• childhood studies

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

  Nancy D. Campbell

• University of Liverpool, University of Plymouth, UK

  Elizabeth Ettorre

NANCY CAMPBELL is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, USA. She focuses on intersections between history of science, drug policy and gender studies.
 
ELIZABETH ETTORRE is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK. She has also written, Revisioning Women and Drug Use.

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