Charting Women's Journeys Charting Women's Journeys
Critical Perspectives on Crime and Inequality

Charting Women's Journeys

From Addiction to Recovery

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Beschreibung des Verlags

Addiction among women continues to be a vexing social problem with no clear solution. Individuals, families, and social organizations use various approaches to end addiction, ranging from social isolation and family enmeshment to formal detox programs, but results remain uneven. In this study of the recovery careers of female addicts living in rural settings, Judith Grant explores the ways in which twenty-five addicts engage in individual processes of self-recovery. Using feminist methods of inquiry and a Meadian theoretical framework of analysis, Grant follows the women through three distinct recovery phases as they slowly come to shift their understandings of themselves, others, and their social objects. Central to a recovery lies a process through which women reinvent themselves by altering their involvement with themselves, their partners, friends, and children, and of course their addictive substance. This book offers concrete solutions for policy makers and provides a refreshing measure of hope for the largely invisible population of individuals, both family members and addicts, who suffer terribly from this disease.

GENRE
Sachbücher
ERSCHIENEN
2008
13. März
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
156
Seiten
VERLAG
Lexington Books
GRÖSSE
764,5
 kB

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