Marginalised Drug-Using Women’s Pleasure and Agency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12970684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Natasha Du Rose (0000-0003-2102-2025, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Pages | 42-64 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Social History of Alcohol Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-2783 • E-ISSN: 2640-7329 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/shad31010042 |
| OpenAlex | W2898867815 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
This paper discusses the problem of conceptualising female drug user’s pleasure, agency and autonomy in the context of their social and economic marginalization and victimization. It examines how the conceptual tools derived from or influenced by cultural criminology, including Lyng’s edgework and Steven’s subterranean structuration, can illuminate and provide a rich account of marginalised female drug users’ pleasure, agency and resistance. In so doing, it aims to highlight dimensions of female users’ pleasure that are often pathologized as irrational or hedonistic or else silenced and dismissed. It also examines how women’s agency and pleasure is obscured in the broadly male tradition of cultural criminology. And, finally, it explores women drug users’ awareness of and reaction to the gendered discourses in which they operate
Agency (philosophy · Autonomy · Context (archaeology · Irrational number · Pleasure · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology · Ecology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |