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OverviewFor the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against drug cravings, housing debt, and potential violence. In this stunning ethnography Kelly Ray Knight presents these women in all their complex humanity and asks what kinds of futures are possible for them given their seemingly hopeless situation. During her four years of fieldwork Knight documented women's struggles as they traveled from the street to the clinic, jail, and family court, and back to the hotels. She approaches addicted pregnancy as an everyday phenomenon in these women's lives and describes how they must navigate the tension between pregnancy's demands to stay clean and the pull of addiction and poverty toward drug use and sex work. By creating the space for addicted women's own narratives and examining addicted pregnancy from medical, policy, and social science perspectives, Knight forces us to confront and reconsider the ways we think about addiction, trauma, health, criminality, and responsibility. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kelly Ray KnightPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780822359968ISBN 10: 0822359960 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 27 October 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Consumption and Insecurity 33 2. Addicted Pregnancy and Time 68 3. Neurocratic Futures in the Disability Economy 102 4. Street Psychiatrics and New Configurations of Madness 125 5. Stratified Reproduction and the Kin of Last Resort 151 6. Victim-Perpetrators 178 Conclusion 206 Appendix 240 Notes 247 Bibliography 279 Index 297ReviewsKelly Ray Knight writes with compassion and self-reflection, and one of her great strengths is the way she gracefully renders her own doubts and self-ironies into the stories she collects from pregnant addicts, making both her subjects and herself more 'real' and complicated. addicted.pregnant.poor brings the experience of pregnant drug addicts close to the reader, giving them human voices, faces, and fears. Knight's plunge into the dangerous, barely-survivable world these women inhabit is tremendously compelling. --Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentisis in America Kelly Ray Knight writes with compassion and self-reflection, and one of her great strengths is the way she gracefully renders her own doubts and self-ironies into the stories she collects from pregnant addicts, making both her subjects and herself more 'real' and complicated. addicted.pregnant.poor brings the experience of pregnant drug addicts close to the reader, giving them human voices, faces, and fears. Knight's plunge into the dangerous, barely survivable world these women inhabit is tremendously compelling. --Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America Author InformationKelly Ray Knight is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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