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Kelly Ray Knight - addicted.pregnant.poor - 9780822359531 - V9780822359531
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addicted.pregnant.poor

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Description for addicted.pregnant.poor Hardback. 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? Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Num Pages: 328 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 239 x 23. Weight in Grams: 608.
For the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against drug cravings, housing debt, and potential violence. In this stunning ethnography Kelly Ray Knight presents these women in all their complex humanity and asks what kinds of futures are possible for them given their seemingly hopeless situation. During her four years of fieldwork Knight documented women’s struggles as they traveled from the street to the clinic, jail, and family court, and back to the hotels. She approaches addicted pregnancy as an everyday phenomenon in these women's lives and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Series
Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822359531
SKU
V9780822359531
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About Kelly Ray Knight
Kelly Ray Knight is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. 

Reviews for addicted.pregnant.poor
"The Mission District is very much a part of this narrative. Knight understands that individual women’s stories do not exist in a vacuum within the city; they speak volumes about the gentrification to the area unhinted-at in the book’s title, the new people moving in, the private 'Google buses' that shuttle tech workers to their well-paid jobs. ... This is ... Read more

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