Women's Drug Use in Everyday Life.

• Author: Eleonorasdotter, Emma.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Part I Contextualising the Women and the Drugs -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Representations -- 1.2 Drugs in Everyday Life -- 1.3 The Women Participants -- The interviewees -- 1.4 A Power-Sensitive Approach -- 1.5 The Interviews -- 1.6 A Queer Phenomenological Approach to Drug Use -- 1.7 Power Relations -- 1.8 The Concepts of Lines and Orientation -- 1.9 Respectability and Value -- 1.10 Disposition -- 1.11 Part I -- 1.12 Part II -- References -- 2 Drugs, Alcohol and Medicine in Sweden -- 2.1 Drug Laws and Drug Culture -- 2.2 Women and Medication -- Women's Physical Morality -- 2.3 Sweden's Drug Problem from the 1960s Onwards -- 2.4 Qualitative Research on People Who Use Drugs -- References -- Part II Ethnographies of everyday drug use -- 3 The First Visits -- 3.1 A Gateway? -- 3.2 A Swamp? -- 3.3 Sinking into the Ground -- References -- 4 Avoiding the Knarkare -- 4.1 Invisible Dirt -- 4.2 Keeping the Abuser on the Margins -- 4.3 Dirt and Freedom -- 4.4 Disgusting Syringes -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Obtaining Drugs -- 5.1 Out on the Town -- A Gendered, Classed and Racialised Street Market -- 5.2 In One's Own Social Circle -- 5.3 Drugs as Gifts -- Women's Reciprocity -- Homeliness -- Gifts Causing Trouble -- References -- 6 Staying Appropriate -- 6.1 Keeping the Rhythm -- 6.2 Hiding -- References -- 7 Behaving with Children -- References -- 8 Appropriate Drugs -- 8.1 Medicines -- A Troublesome Brain -- 8.2 Drugs as Medication -- Illegal Chemicals -- Performance Enhancers -- 8.3 Legitimate Hedonism -- 8.4 Responsibility for Oneself -- References -- 9 Negotiating Addiction -- 9.1 The Will to Perform Class -- 9.2 Does Pleasure Equate to Addiction? -- 9.3 In and Out of Addiction -- 9.4 The Will to Quit Using Drugs -- References -- 10 Happy Using Drugs? -- 10.1 Distance and Closeness -- 10.2 Unhappiness.

10.3 Drugs as Happiness -- An Almost Normative Happiness -- Forbidden Happiness -- Instead of the Right Kind of Happiness -- References -- 11 Is It Ok to Laugh? -- 11.1 Laughter in Interviews -- 11.2 The Story as Part of Drug Use -- 11.3 Women's Proud Madness -- References -- 12 Conclusions -- 12.1 Tacit Ways of Acting Out -- 12.2 Psychoactive Effects -- References -- Appendix: Drugs and Medicines -- Amphetamine, MDMA/Ecstasy and Amphetamine-Based Drugs -- Benzodiazepines -- Cannabis: Hashish, Marijuana and CBD Products -- Cocaine and Crack Cocaine -- LSD and Psilocybin -- Opioids: Opium, Heroin, Morphine and Synthetic Opiates -- SSRIs and Tricyclic Antidepressants -- References -- Index.