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Gendering Addiction

The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Nancy D. Campbell

    1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

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  2. Elizabeth Ettorre

    1. University of Liverpool, University of Plymouth, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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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

  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?

Authors and Affiliations

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

    Nancy D. Campbell

  • University of Liverpool, University of Plymouth, UK

    Elizabeth Ettorre

About the authors

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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