The Governance of Female Drug Users: Women's Experiences of Drug Policy - Hardcover

Du Rose, Natasha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847426727 ISBN 13: 9781847426727

Publisher: Policy Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book is the first to examine how female drug users’ identities, and hence their experiences, are shaped by drug policies. Drawing from in-depth accounts from forty-one drug-using women, it offers an empirical analysis of the subjectivities current drug policies ascribe to women users and how these prolong—rather than end—their problematic drug use while reinforcing their social exclusion. Challenging popular misconceptions of female users, The Governance of Female Drug Users calls for the reformulation of drug policies based on gender equity and social justice.

About this title

About the Author:

Natasha Du Rose is a lecturer in criminology and sociology at the University of Roehampton, UK.

Review:

“A welcome addition to feminist scholarship. Du Rose vividly demonstrates how women’s identities and experiences are shaped by punitive and contradictory drug policies.” (Susan Boyd, University of Victoria, Canada)

“Beautifully written, innovative, readable, and well-researched, Du Rose’s book is a sophisticated contribution to the very little knowledge there is about female drug users.” (Pat Carlen, Leicester University)

“A must-read for anyone wanting to understand the various ways in which discourses of women’s drug use shape drug policies in the UK, USA, and Canada and women’s sense of selves as drug users.” (Jo Phoenix, University of Leicester)

“This is a valuable effort—the ongoing documentation of the distance between drug policy discourse and the lived realities described by women who are simultaneously navigating their ‘desire to be normal’ and their ‘alienation from the straight world.’ . . . This is a well-written, thorough account from women who inhabit social worlds that remain deeply misunderstood.” (Nancy D. Campbell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books)

About this edition

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1847426727
• ISBN 13: 9781847426727
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 356