Revisioning Women and Drug Use: Gender, Power and the Body - Hardcover

by E. Ettorre (Author)

This 'landmark' text by one of the most respected researchers in drug use considers the issues surrounding the gendering of drug use, and within this looks critically at two approaches - the classical and postmodern. Ettorre examines the idea of a drug-using society and the implications this holds for social inequality and exclusion.

Author Biography

ELIZABETH ETTORRE is Professor of Sociology at Liverpool University, UK. She has taught and researched in the USA, Finland and the UK and holds honorary appointments at the universities of Exeter, Helsinki, Abo Academy University and the Institute of Scientific Analysis. Her research interests include women's studies, substance use, health and illness, and ethics.