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Addicted.pregnant.poor, Kelly Ray Knight

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For the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against drug cravings, housing debt, and potential violence. In this ethnography Kelly Ray Knight presents these women in all their complex humanity and asks what kinds of futures are possible for them given their seemingly hopeless situation. During her four years of fieldwork Knight documented women's struggles as they traveled from the street to the clinic, jail, and family court, and back to the hotels. She approaches addicted pregnancy as an everyday phenomenon in these women's lives and describes how they must navigate the tension between pregnancy's demands to stay clean and the pull of addiction and poverty toward drug use and sex work. By creating the space for addicted women's own narratives and examining addicted pregnancy from medical, policy, and social science perspectives, Knight forces us to confront and reconsider the ways we think about addiction, trauma, health, criminality, and responsibility.--Publisher information
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xii, 307 pages
Contents
  • Consumption and insecurity
  • Addicted pregnancy and time
  • Neurocratic futures in the disability economy
  • Street psychiatrics and new configurations of madness
  • Stratified reproduction and kin of last resort
  • Victim/perpetrators
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9780822375180
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Addicted.pregnant.poor
Title
Addicted.pregnant.poor
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Kelly Ray Knight
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Author
Subject
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Language
eng
Summary
For the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against drug cravings, housing debt, and potential violence. In this ethnography Kelly Ray Knight presents these women in all their complex humanity and asks what kinds of futures are possible for them given their seemingly hopeless situation. During her four years of fieldwork Knight documented women's struggles as they traveled from the street to the clinic, jail, and family court, and back to the hotels. She approaches addicted pregnancy as an everyday phenomenon in these women's lives and describes how they must navigate the tension between pregnancy's demands to stay clean and the pull of addiction and poverty toward drug use and sex work. By creating the space for addicted women's own narratives and examining addicted pregnancy from medical, policy, and social science perspectives, Knight forces us to confront and reconsider the ways we think about addiction, trauma, health, criminality, and responsibility.--Publisher information
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1969-
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Knight, Kelly Ray
Dewey number
362.29082/0979461
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HV5824.W6
LC item number
K65 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Critical global health : evidence, efficacy, ethnography
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  • Pregnant women
  • Poor women
  • Cocaine abuse
  • Mission District (San Francisco, Calif.)
  • Gravida kvinnor
  • Fattiga kvinnor
  • Kvinnliga missbrukare
  • Kokainmissbruk
  • Förenta staterna
  • Cocaine abuse
  • Poor women
  • Pregnant women
  • Social conditions
  • California
  • California
  • Drogenabhängigkeit
  • Lebensbedingungen
  • Schwangere
  • Soziale Probleme
  • San Francisco, Calif
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Addicted.pregnant.poor, Kelly Ray Knight
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Consumption and insecurity -- Addicted pregnancy and time -- Neurocratic futures in the disability economy -- Street psychiatrics and new configurations of madness -- Stratified reproduction and kin of last resort -- Victim/perpetrators
Control code
ocn900242700
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xii, 307 pages
Isbn
9780822375180
Lccn
2015015084
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o900242700
  • (OCoLC)900242700
Label
Addicted.pregnant.poor, Kelly Ray Knight
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Consumption and insecurity -- Addicted pregnancy and time -- Neurocratic futures in the disability economy -- Street psychiatrics and new configurations of madness -- Stratified reproduction and kin of last resort -- Victim/perpetrators
Control code
ocn900242700
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xii, 307 pages
Isbn
9780822375180
Lccn
2015015084
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o900242700
  • (OCoLC)900242700

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