Abstract:This book is based on an ethnological study of Swedish women’s everyday drug use. A queer phenomenological perspective, paying specific attention to class and gender, is used to analyse the accounts of twelve women aged 25–65 years. The book takes into account the central and increasing role of psychoactive substances in contemporary everyday life, and explores the women’s paths and considerations in relation to their use of drugs. The women in the study use different kinds of stigmatised substances in markedl… Show more
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