Getting gender on the agenda: a history of pioneers in drug treatment for women -- Raising consciousness or controlling women? Women's drug and alcohol treatment re-emerges -- Undue burdens: the emergence of feminist treatment advocacy in a masculinist system -- 'Unearthing women' in drug policy: where do women fit-or do they? -- Reproducing bodies and governing motherhood: drug-using women and reproductive loss
Summary
Gendering Addiction brings to bear the ideas of feminist sociology of knowledge, situated knowledge and ignorance, and standpoint epistemologies upon an injustice that has grave consequences for the human rights of drug-using women. Despite concerted efforts since the 1970s, most women who need drug treatment in the US and UK still do not receive it because of ways treatment is delivered. This book examines ongoing attempts to meet a basic need that has not been met. Knowledge-making practices in drug research and treatment make it resistant to the gendered, classed and racialized power differentials that structure the lives of drug-using women. Without such knowledge, what we need to know about women's specific needs will continue to not to be known. A critical historical and sociological framework is crafted showing how feminist knowledge production is a promising route for overcoming the pervasive 'epistemology of ignorance' that prevails
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-241) and index
