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.