This study, by two leading scholarsin the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studiesto 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?
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Making Gender Matter: Drug-Using Women, Embodiment, and the Epistemologies of Ignorance PART I: REINVENTING THE WHEEL Getting Gender on the Agenda: A History of Pioneers in Drug Treatment for Women Raising Consciousness or Controlling Women? Women's Drug andf alcohol Treatment Re-emerges Undue Burdens: The Emergence of Feminist Treatment Advocacy in a Masculinist System PART II: GENDERING GOVERNING MENTALITIES 'Unearthing Women' in Drug Policy: Where Do Women Fit - Or Do They? Reproducing Bodies and Governing Motherhood: Drug-using Women and Reproductive Loss Conclusion: Making Gender Matter in an Age of Neurochemical Selves Notes References Index
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