Revisioning women and drug use: gender sensitivity, embodiment and reducing harm

Ettorre, Elizabeth

doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2004.06.009

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“…I don't think it'll happen, but if, say, someone comes up and calls me a whore, then I'll just say, 'look, I had a good shag and that's it!' Thus, and in line with the results presented by Ettore (2004), while some of the young women who took part in the research experienced subordination, they also found pleasure. Smoking or positive drinking can be pleasurable: an escape from pain or resistance to passive feminity.…”

Section: Romo Et Al Risky Sexual Behaviour and Gender Identitysupporting

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Girl Power: Risky Sexual Behaviour and Gender Identity amongst Young Spanish Recreational Drug Users

Romo

Marcos-Marcos

Rodríguez³

et al. 2009

Sexualities

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Against a background of significant social change experienced by Spanish women from the 1960s onwards, new gender identities and conflicts have emerged. These factors have barely been taken into account in the research work done in Spain. This article looks into the conversations of young people concerning their relationship with risky sexual behaviour, recreational drug use and sexual identity. Drawing from a qualitative study of discussion groups and semi-structured interviews with young recreational drug users, the article suggests that there are at least two models of femininity among the recreational drug consumers that have taken part in this study. First there is a traditional romantic model whereby young women associated risky sexual behaviour with being in love or trusting in the partner. Here the young woman does not link her sexual behaviour to the effects of using recreational drugs but, rather, to the characteristics of her emotional relationship. Second, there is a model of new values and gender roles that are closer to those traditionally associated to males, where the young women use recreational drugs as a form of empowerment to take on new situations concerning their sexuality. The article analyses the perceptions of risk among the different identity groups, along with the negotiations to begin sexual relations and the use of the condom in these groups of recreational drug users. Issues for policy and practice are also briefly considered.

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Section: Romo Et Al Risky Sexual Behaviour and Gender Identitysupporting

confidence: 87%

Girl Power: Risky Sexual Behaviour and Gender Identity amongst Young Spanish Recreational Drug Users

Romo

Marcos-Marcos

Rodríguez³

et al. 2009

Sexualities

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“…Women's drinking was more strongly associated with their emotional and relational lives and men's with their external work lives, highlighting gendered styles of engagement with alcohol (Ettorre 2004). As gendered bodies consume alcohol for pleasure and enjoyment, they appear to be monitored and controlled more closely by women than men.…”

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Staying ‘in the Zone’ but Not Passing the ‘Point of No Return’: Embodiment, Gender and Drinking in Mid‐Life

Lyons¹,

Emslie²,

Hunt³

2014

From Health Behaviours to Health Practices

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Public health approaches have frequently conceptualised alcohol consumption as an individual behaviour resulting from rational choice. We argue that drinking alcohol needs to be understood as an embodied social practice embedded in gendered social relationships and environments. We draw on data from 14 focus groups with pre-existing groups of friends and work colleagues in which men and women in mid-life discussed their drinking behaviour. Analysis demonstrated that drinking alcohol marked a transitory time and space that altered both women's and men's subjective embodied experience of everyday gendered roles and responsibilities. The participants positioned themselves as experienced drinkers who, through accumulated knowledge of their own physical bodies, could achieve enjoyable bodily sensations by reaching a desired level of intoxication (being in the zone). These mid-life adults, particularly women, discussed knowing when they were approaching their limit and needed to stop drinking. Experiential and gendered embodied knowledge was more important in regulating consumption than health promotion advice. These findings foreground the relational and gendered nature of drinking and reinforce the need to critically interrogate the concept of alcohol consumption as a simple health behaviour. Broader theorising around notions of gendered embodiment may be helpful for more sophisticated conceptualisations of health practices.

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“…Negative outcomes were managed proactively with monitoring of dosage, administration of pharmaceuticals and restricted photo therapy. Artificially tanned skin poses an interesting quandary in the discourses around embodied deviance, particularly as it crosses the Rubicon towards accepted self-medicating practices and ethnopharmacological knowledge of its users (see Ettorre, 2004;Orford, 2000;Terry & Urla, 1995).…”

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SMART: An Internet study of users experiences of synthetic tanning

Hout

2014

Performance Enhancement & Health

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Revisioning women and drug use: gender sensitivity, embodiment and reducing harm

Cited by 108 publications

References 23 publications

Girl Power: Risky Sexual Behaviour and Gender Identity amongst Young Spanish Recreational Drug Users

Girl Power: Risky Sexual Behaviour and Gender Identity amongst Young Spanish Recreational Drug Users

Staying ‘in the Zone’ but Not Passing the ‘Point of No Return’: Embodiment, Gender and Drinking in Mid‐Life

SMART: An Internet study of users experiences of synthetic tanning

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