Addicted.pregnant.poor
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Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Physical Description
xii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Status
Laramie County Community College - Main Collection
HV5824 .W6 K65 2015
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HV5824 .W6 K65 2015
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Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.--From publisher description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Knight, K. R. (2015). Addicted.pregnant.poor . Duke University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Knight, Kelly Ray, 1969-. 2015. Addicted.pregnant.poor. Duke University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Knight, Kelly Ray, 1969-. Addicted.pregnant.poor Duke University Press, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Knight, Kelly Ray. Addicted.pregnant.poor Duke University Press, 2015.
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