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oapen-20.500.12657-876212024-03-28T14:03:16Z Women’s Drug Use in Everyday Life Eleonorasdotter, Emma drugs and gender drug problems addiction Queer phenomenology queer theory drugs and culture cultural sociology substance use substance abuse illegal substances drugs and society social work social problems thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSR Social groups: religious groups and communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMS Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality This open access book explores the increasing role of psychoactive substances in contemporary everyday life, focussing on women's use. Drawing on an ethnographic study in Sweden, it uses cultural studies and queer phenomenology to analyse the women’s narratives of drug use relating to themes that encompass social, legal, cultural, embodied and gendered perspectives on drugs in the contemporary Western world. It examines topics such as stigma, happiness, children, the body, gifts, the drug market, medication, sickness and health and also the orientation of themselves towards others, to social and cultural norms, to drug laws and to the substances. It discusses how drug related spaces and directions be analysed in terms of gender and class, and how, in turn, the directions of contemporary society and culture can be affected by drug use. It speaks to academics in Sociology, Criminology, Ethnology, Gender studies, Law and History. 2024-02-13T16:11:31Z 2024-02-13T16:11:31Z 2024 book ONIX_20240213_9783031460579_9 9783031460579 9783031460562 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87621 eng application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-46057-9.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-46057-9 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-46057-9 10.1007/978-3-031-46057-9 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 4132e290-e9a8-4f81-aa49-52c7c17e3065 9783031460579 9783031460562 Palgrave Macmillan 352 Cham [...] Lunds Universitet Lund University open access
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This open access book explores the increasing role of psychoactive substances in contemporary everyday life, focussing on women's use. Drawing on an ethnographic study in Sweden, it uses cultural studies and queer phenomenology to analyse the women’s narratives of drug use relating to themes that encompass social, legal, cultural, embodied and gendered perspectives on drugs in the contemporary Western world. It examines topics such as stigma, happiness, children, the body, gifts, the drug market, medication, sickness and health and also the orientation of themselves towards others, to social and cultural norms, to drug laws and to the substances. It discusses how drug related spaces and directions be analysed in terms of gender and class, and how, in turn, the directions of contemporary society and culture can be affected by drug use. It speaks to academics in Sociology, Criminology, Ethnology, Gender studies, Law and History.
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