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Addicted.pregnant.poor
Engelsk Paperback
Addicted.pregnant.poor
Engelsk Paperback

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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. 
 
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9780822359968
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0822359960
Udg. Dato:
27 okt 2015
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
231mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
27 okt 2015
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge