Women Drug Users
An Ethnography of a Female Injecting Community
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 27 May 1993
- ISBN 9780198257967
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 225x146x19 mm
- Weight 360 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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
