Women’s Drug Use in Everyday Life

This open access book explores the increasing role of psychoactive substances in contemporary everyday life, focusing on women's use. It uses cultural studies and queer phenomenology to analyse women's narratives of drug use relating to social, legal, cultural, embodied, and gendered perspectives on drugs in the Western world. It discusses topics such as stigma, happiness, children, the body, gifts, the drug market, medication, sickness, and health, and the orientation of women towards others, social and cultural norms, drug laws, and substances. It also discusses how drug-related spaces and directions can be analysed in terms of gender and class and how contemporary society and culture can be affected by drug use.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 22 December 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

Psychoactive substances have become increasingly prevalent in contemporary everyday life, particularly among women. This open access book explores the role of psychoactive substances in women's lives, drawing on an ethnographic study in Sweden. It uses cultural studies and queer phenomenology to analyze women's narratives of drug use, covering social, legal, cultural, embodied, and gendered perspectives on drugs in the contemporary Western world. The book examines topics such as stigma, happiness, children, the body, gifts, the drug market, medication, sickness, and health, as well as the orientation of women towards others, social and cultural norms, drug laws, and substances. It discusses how drug-related spaces and directions can be analyzed in terms of gender and class and how contemporary society and culture can be affected by drug use. It is intended for academics in Sociology, Criminology, Ethnology, Gender studies, Law, and History.

Weight: 606g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031460562
Edition number: 1st ed. 2024