Kelly Ray Knight

addicted.pregnant.poor

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this ethnography of addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco, Kelly Ray Knight examines the myriad struggles these women face, as well as their encounters with social and medical institutions. She asks: what kinds of futures are possible for these women?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359531
• ISBN-10: 0822359537
• Artikelnr.: 42128989

Autorenporträt

Kelly Ray Knight

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  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  297