Titre : | Women's perspectives on drugs and alcohol: the vicious circle |
Auteurs : | RAINE P. |
Type de document : | Livre |
Editeur : | Aldershot : Ashagate, 2001 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-7546-1429-6 |
Format : | 146 p. |
Note générale : |
Aldershot, Ashagate, 2001, 146 p. |
Langues: | Français |
Discipline : | SHS (Sciences humaines et sociales / Humanities and social sciences) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés ALCOOL ; SEXE FEMININ ; PSYCHOTROPES ; TRAITEMENTThésaurus géographique ROYAUME-UNI |
Résumé : |
ENGLISH : In the field of alcohol and drug use, gender has been traditionally defined as society's expectation concerning behaviour viewed as appropriate for members of each sex. A fuller notion of gender as both a process and an institution has been absent. For example, as a process, gender is a part of all human interactions and shapes the meaning of 'female' and 'male' and 'masculinity' and 'femininity' on cultural, political and economical levels. Here, gender has an effect on the social groupings of men and women and divisions between both the private and public arenas of social life. As an institution, gender is a part of culture just like other components of culture such as symbols, language, norms, values and so on. It is a stable form of structured inequality and embedded in culture. In this context , gender is a normative and moralising system that exerts social control on all in society. Gender brings to society a set of inter-related norms centred on the activities of individuals. These individuals are marked by differences on the basis of being 'male' and 'female' as well as 'masculine' and 'feminine'. Women who experience alcohol and drug problems go through a variety of problems of daily living by the very fact that these substances are embedded in their lives. Their lives are full of many obstacles both privately and publicly and these lives are riddled with shame. Furthermore, social expectations of these problems and the experiences of these problems are gendered. In this book, Women's Perspectives on Drugs and Alcohol: The Vicious Circle, Pamela Raine recognises the centrality of gender and gender relationships. She goes beyond the traditional view of gender that has been put forward in this field. She recognises the complexities of gender as a process and an institution and appreciates the subtle and often hidden, unexpected ways that gender infiltrates the lives of women drug and alcohol users. On a theoretical level, Pamela Raine introduces refreshing, new ideas into a field where women have been traditionally the underdogs. She offers a thorough and thoughtprovoking account of women's problematic experiences with alcohol and drugs. Consciously, she allows the voices of women to come through. In turn, these voices are contextualised by key themes drawn from compelling narratives. For example, these substances created chaos m the lives of these female substance users, while complex mechanisms of social control shaped their gendered experiences of these substances. Helpseeking responses of professionals and the advantages and disadvantages of treatment are contextualised as key areas in these gendered experiences. In the end, the author makes far-reaching recommendations that match the results of this important research. We learn how gender influences the ways in which users co-ordinate their space, their time, their substances, community resources, and others (whether those others be other users, relatives, families, caters). (Extract of the publication) |
Domaine : | Plusieurs produits / Several products |
Refs biblio. : | 189 |
Affiliation : |
Lancaster University Royaume-Uni. United Kingdom. |
Centre Emetteur : | 13 OFDT |
Cote : | L00417 |
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