"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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1. VerfasserIn: Derkas, Erika (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2011
In: Social justice
Jahr: 2011, Band: 38, Heft: 3, Seiten: 125-144
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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
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:2327-641X