Gender and Critical Drug Studies

Campbell, Nancy; Herzberg, David

doi:10.1177/0091450917738075

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“…Proto-narcofeminists of the 1960s who produced ‘expert knowledge outside of privileged masculine spaces’ (Campbell & Herzberg, 2017, p. 259) of psychedelics are therefore rarely granted the status of an expert. More troubling still, and echoed in the words of narcofeminists today, where women did write or talk about their drug experiences, they were often ‘censored by women themselves’ (Lemke-Santangelo, 2009, p. 113) in an attempt to rid the women’s movements of its association with what became, as the 1970s progressed, a recognition of the patriarchal nature of the counterculture and its prophets, and the stereotypes that pervaded depictions of women drug users.…”

Section: Acid Feminists As Narcofeministsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Acid feminism: Gender, psychonautics and the politics of consciousness

Dymock

2023

The Sociological Review

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Psychedelic substances have undergone a transformation in the public consciousness over the last 15 years. However, the most influential first-person narratives of psychonauts and ‘scientist-shamans’ navigating the frontiers of consciousness have tended to entirely exclude women’s experiences and voices. Psychedelic feminism, has emerged to signify the role consciousness expansion and experimentation might play in rejuvenating feminism’s collective imagination, and undoing the historical silencing of women’s voices in psychedelic culture and research. Drawing on Mark Fisher’s work on acid communism, the feminist psychedelic humanities, narcofeminism and autobiographical life-writing by women on experimental psychedelic substance use, this article investigates the promise of acid feminism for the wider narcofeminist movement, and its implications for undoing some key precepts endemic in psychedelic culture and research.

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Section: Acid Feminists As Narcofeministsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Acid feminism: Gender, psychonautics and the politics of consciousness

Dymock

2023

The Sociological Review

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“…In this sense, drug worlds map onto broader gender inequalities. While studies like these have integrated questions of gender into wider discussions on drugs, particularly in acknowledging and addressing the 'special needs' of drug-using women (Boyd, 2001(Boyd, , 2017Campbell & Ettorre, 2011;Campbell & Herzberg, 2017;Ettorre, 2004), they also point to some of the ways that binary logics have limited or 'disciplined' conversations in the sociology of drugs by treating gender as categorisable and preassigned, and drugs as fixed, stable objects that work to reinforce pre-existing gender roles and expectations.…”

Section: 'Undisciplining' the Sociology Of Drugsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narcofeminism and its multiples: From activism to everyday minoritarian worldbuilding

Dennis,

Pienaar,

Rosengarten

2023

The Sociological Review

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Sociology has a long-standing interest in the consumption of licit and illicit drugs, particularly as a feminist concern with scholars highlighting the ways in which drugs are used as regulatory technologies to control the conduct and subjectivities of women and other marginalised groups. This monograph flips the focus from a feminist sociological concern with drugs as a means of confining minoritised peoples, to explore what they can do as a feminist practice. Employing the drug-user activist concept of ‘narcofeminism’, it aims to rethink how drugs are conceived in sociology and chart their role in shaping selves and worlds. This article introduces the guiding philosophy of the narcofeminist movement as articulated in an interview we conducted with founding narcofeminist activists from Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Threaded through the interview are vivid examples of the ingrained and overlapping hostilities that differentially constitute drug consumption practices for women and gender minorities, and the brave acts of resistance they perform in response. In introducing the collection, we foreground a key aim that has guided its development: thinking with the insights of narcofeminism, we have sought to address the complexities of drug use and to hold in focus its potentialities both in terms of its harms and benefits, risks and rewards and, importantly, to reflect on how people navigate these counterposing forces in their situated practices of drug use. We also discuss how the collection advances the sociology of drugs by bridging disciplinary divides and disrupting binary distinctions between licit and illicit drugs, volition and compulsion, pleasure and pain, and discourse and practice, among others. This article provides an overview of the contributions that comprise the monograph, highlighting how they grapple with the ethico-political commitments of narcofeminism to rethink drug consumption as a mode of living, capable of transforming social worlds.

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“…For the purposes of this discussion a view of gender as "actively produced and reproduced" (Campbell & Herzberg, 2017, p. 253) is considered as the most useful way of positioning WWID's experiences. It is also acknowledged that while challenges to the masculine/ feminine binary are often implicit in the experiences of WWID, through their use of drugs, this dichotomous view of gender affects how WWID position themselves in relation to considerations of "respectability," as well as how they perceive others view them (Campbell & Herzberg, 2017).…”

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Women Who Inject Drugs (WWID): Stigma, Gender and Barriers to Needle Exchange Programmes (NEPs)

Gibson

Hutton

2021

Contemporary Drug Problems

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Global evidence suggests that experiences of access to Needle Exchange services are gendered and that women who inject drugs (WWID) access needle exchange services differently to men. Despite being a significant proportion of injecting drug users, women’s voices and experiences have often been silenced in studies around harm reduction service provision, hampering the development of harm reduction services for WWID. This article highlights the experiences of four women and one trans man who have previously injected drugs, in accessing needle exchange programmes (NEPs) in a New Zealand context. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were carried out with five participants and thematic analysis of the interviews produced three core themes: how stigma permeates WWIDs’ lives; barriers in accessing needle exchange services; and how experiences within a drugs context are gendered. Stigma was an overwhelming issue affecting WWID which also acted as a barrier to their access of NEPs. The WWID in our study in terms of Goffman’s original theorizing were “doubly discredited” as well as “precariously discreditable” due to their gender and injection drug using status. The participants keenly felt their stigmatized status through interactions with pharmacy-based needle exchange staff, perceiving that pharmacy staff viewed them as more contaminated than their male counterparts. Gendered relationships were also noted in injection practices, although initiation for this group of WWID was done by intimate partners as well as friends, dispelling the stereotype of WWID as passive victims. Some participants also learnt to self-inject which gave them a sense of empowerment and freedom as they did not have to rely on others to help them. The social structures that support stigmatizing tropes about WWID need to be addressed as well as more local interventions to prevent stigma in NEPs, alongside women focused services.

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Gender and Critical Drug Studies

Cited by 51 publications

References 35 publications

Acid feminism: Gender, psychonautics and the politics of consciousness

Acid feminism: Gender, psychonautics and the politics of consciousness

Narcofeminism and its multiples: From activism to everyday minoritarian worldbuilding

Women Who Inject Drugs (WWID): Stigma, Gender and Barriers to Needle Exchange Programmes (NEPs)

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