Cultural Ecstasies: Drugs, Gender and the Social Imaginary (Concepts for Critical Psychology) - Softcover

Mountian, Ilana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415583861 ISBN 13: 9780415583862

Verlag: Routledge, 2012

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Reseña del editor:

In this important contribution to the field, Ilana Mountian critically analyses discourses surrounding drug addiction, drug prohibition, treatment and prevention, and highlights new ways of understanding the role that gender plays in the ethics of drug use across cultures.

The book analyses the discourses of religion, criminality and medicine, and shows how they, combined with key historical events, affect our views of drug use and drug users based on gender, race and class.

The book draws on research from a variety of fields to provide alternative conceptual and methodological perspectives on the subject, including:

• critical theory
• gender studies
• post-colonial studies
• psychoanalysis
• philosophy.

Cultural Ecstasies is an innovative study of drugs and addiction, and will be of great interest to students, researchers and professionals working in psychology, sociology, social work, health care, criminology, and allied disciplines.

Biografía del autor:

Ilana Mountian is an Honorary Research Fellow and a member of the Discourse Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She also currently holds a postdoctoral research position at the Universidade de São Paolo, Brazil. Her research practice involves the application of inter-disciplinary perspectives, including critical theories, gender studies, post-colonial studies and psychoanalysis, to the study of drug use, immigration and gender.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0415583861
• ISBN 13: 9780415583862
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168