Overview
- Fills a gap by focussing on the everyday life perspective
- Examine key themes around recreational drug use for a global audience
- Draws on ethnographic data
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Contextualising the Women and the Drugs
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Ethnographies of everyday drug use
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Reviews
-Ulrika Dahl is a writer, activist and Professor of Gender Studies at the Centre for Gender Research in Uppsala, Sweden.
“This book offers a fascinating insight into the everyday lives of women who use drugs in Sweden. Adopting a queer phenomenological perspective, Dr Eleonorasdotter brings a fresh perspective to debates about drug use and notions of ‘harm’. Well-researched and written, the book engages with gendered, classed and stigmatising constructions of women who use drugs represented in policy and practice. We are encouraged to think about what it means to be a woman who uses drugs living andworking in Sweden today. An excellent addition to the literature.”
-Michelle Addison, Associate Professor of Criminology, Durham University, UK
"This is a thought-provoking and intelligent book, brushing aside the negativity which is continually connected with women who use any kind of mind altering substances. Eleonorasdotter is successful in challenging the one-dimensional view of using women as well as in offering a feminist account of the lives of her respondents in the Swedish context. This is a must-read for everyone in the addiction field – users, treaters, researchers, and policymakers."
-Elizabeth Ettorre, Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK.
"Eleonorasdotter gives us a brilliant and original work that challenges established understandings of women using illegal substances. Based in queer phenomenology and an ethnographical fieldwork, she illustrates how the use of substances challenges the lines and orientations women in different class positions are supposed to follow. The use might bring joy and pleasure as well as pain and unhappiness and could be a way to alter class marked femininity positions."-Tina Mattsson, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Lund University, Sweden"This book is an empathetic and nuanced dive into women’s lived experiences of drug use as an everyday practice. By adopting a queer phenomenological perspective, Emma Eleonorasdotter gives an important and unique contribution to the literature on drug use as it takes the next step in broadening and deepening our understanding of drug use, gender and class. A brilliant must-read book for social scientists, professionals and everyone interested in drug policy and practice."
-Anette Skårner, Professor of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Emma Eleonorasdotter is a researcher and lecturer in Ethnology at Lund University, Sweden. She is an ethnologist and a cultural analyst interested in inequality and everyday lives, and has been part of the editorial team of the Swedish anti-racist cultural magazine Mana since 2008.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women’s Drug Use in Everyday Life
Authors: Emma Eleonorasdotter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46057-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46056-2Published: 22 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46059-3Published: 22 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-46057-9Published: 21 December 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 352
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Crime and Society, Critical Criminology, Sociology of Culture, Criminal Behavior, Personality and Social Psychology