Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice
UsingWomen UsingWomen Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice Nancy D.Campbell Routledge New York London Published in 2000 by Routledge 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003. Published in Great Britain by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE Copyright © 2000 by Routledge All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Campbell, Nancy Duff. Using women: gender, drug policy, and social justice/ by Nancy D.Campbell p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-92412-X (hb)—ISBN 0-415-92413-8 (pbk.) 1. Women—Drug use—United States. 2. Women—Government policy—United States. 3. Narcotics, Control of—United States. 4. Sex discrimination against women—United States. 5. Social justice—United States. I. Title. HV5824.W6 C35 2000 362.29'082'0973–dc21 99–087644 ISBN 0-203-80032-X Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-80036-2 (Adobe eReader Format) CONTENTS List of illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Drug Policy, Social Reproduction, and Social Justice The Politics of Women’s 11 Addiction and Women’s Equality 1 Containing Equality 19 Biology and Vulnerability 2 Governing Mentalities 33 Reading Political Culture Gendering Narcotics 55 3 Primitive Pleasures, Modern Poisons 67 Femininity in the “Age of Dope” 4 The “Enemy Within” 91 Gender Deviance in the Mid-Century 5 Representing the “Real” 112 Girl Drug Addicts Testify v vi Contents Mother Fixations 137 6 Reproducing Drug Addiction 144 Motherhood, Respectability, and the State 7 Regulating Maternal Instinct 169 A Politics of Social Justice 193 8 Reading Drug Ethnography 200 Conclusion 221 Postmodern Progressivism Notes 227 Index 261 ILLUSTRATIONS 1.
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