Women Drug Users

Women Drug Users by Avril Taylor

The book provides an account of the lives and experiences of a group of female intravenous drug users in Glasgow. Based on participant observations of the women in their own setting and in-depth interviews, it is the first full ethnographic account of the lifestyle of female drug users. It charts their entry into drugs, the various ways in which they provide for their drug use, their relationships with friends, partners, family members, and children as well as attitudes towards professionals such as social workers with whom they come into contact by virtue of their status as drug-using mothers. Finally, the efforts the women make to give up their use of drugs is examined, along with the reasons which make these endeavours difficult. The evidence suggests that, ironically, the lifestyle which evolves around their use of drugs offers an arena in which the women are able to find a degree of independence and purpose otherwise lacking in their lives and which makes their drug-using lifestyle attractive even when disadvantages become apparent.

'This is an extremely interesting and academically rigorous book.. The book is well organized and accessible ... this book will be useful to both academics and social workers, as a comprehensive ethnographic study and a window into the world of women drug users.' Jan Keene, British Journal of Social Work
'Her report is a sympathetic dissection of the sad, seedy world of 'career' addicts ... fascinating.' Jane Fowler, The Scotsman
'welcome contribution to the subject ... The book is well organised ... a useful and interesting account which brings the issue of gender to the foreground and may well serve to encourage more extensive research on drug use in which gender is centrally integrated into the framework of the analysis.' Roger Matthews, Criminal Justice Matters
`Avril Taylor must be congratulated on having produced a comprehensive and informative book on women's drug use which, though academically sound, avoids the academic jargon and contortion of much recent feminist work and keeps rhetoric to a minimum ... it thoroughly reviews the literature and is clearly written and fully referenced ... the best book on female drug use to appear in this country for some time.' DRUGLINK
`In chapters that are replete with well-chosen (and highly articulate) quotations, Taylor covers admirably the critical aspects of the drug careers of her sample ... The book is timely and makes a valuable contribution to our current state of knowledge ... Taylor's summary of the issues surrounding motherhood is confident and compelling.' Addiction
An account of the lives and experiences of a group of female intravenous drug users in Glasgow. It is a highly readable text ... This book should be included in a wider range of reading lists than those strictly pertaining to criminology courses. * British Journal of Criminology *

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ISBN 13	9780198257967
ISBN 10	0198257961
Titel	Women Drug Users
Autor	Avril Taylor
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1993-05-27
Seitenanzahl	192
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.