"Don't Let Your Pregnancy Get in the Way of Your Drug Addiction": CRACK and the Ideological Construction of Addicted Women
The article analyzes the rhetorical strategies used by CRACK (Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity), a private nonprofit organization that pays women in impoverished areas to take long-term contraceptives (LTC) and for their permanent sterilization. The author argues that CRACK exploits women with...
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Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2011
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Social justice
Año: 2011, Volumen: 38, Número: 3, Páginas: 125-144 |
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Sumario: | The article analyzes the rhetorical strategies used by CRACK (Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity), a private nonprofit organization that pays women in impoverished areas to take long-term contraceptives (LTC) and for their permanent sterilization. The author argues that CRACK exploits women with drug addictions by comparing their assumed cultural background with popular notions of white, middle-class motherhood. Exploring long-term effects for women and children, the article suggests that CRACK's philosophy and public discourse claiming a logical solution to prenatal drug exposure is false. |
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ISSN: | 2327-641X |