"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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Autor principal: Derkas, Erika (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2011
En: Social justice
Año: 2011, Volumen: 38, Número: 3, Páginas: 125-144
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Publisher)
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Palabras clave:
Services for the poor
Prevention
Sterilization (Birth control)
Contraceptives
Poor women
Women drug addicts
Drug use in pregnancy
Public relations in nonprofit organizations
Discourse Analysis
Rhetoric