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March 25, 2017 | Recovery

By Kelly Ray Knight

For the addicted, pregnant, and terrible ladies dwelling in daily-rent inns in San Francisco's challenge district, lifestyles is marked by way of battles opposed to drug cravings, housing debt, and capability violence. during this gorgeous ethnography Kelly Ray Knight offers those ladies in all their complicated humanity and asks what sorts of futures are attainable for them given their possible hopeless scenario. in the course of her 4 years of fieldwork Knight documented women’s struggles as they traveled from the road to the medical institution, penal complex, and kinfolk courtroom, and again to the lodges. She methods addicted being pregnant as a regular phenomenon in those women's lives and describes how they have to navigate the strain among pregnancy's calls for to stick fresh and the pull of habit and poverty towards drug use and intercourse paintings. via growing the distance for addicted women's personal narratives and studying addicted being pregnant from scientific, coverage, and social technological know-how views, Knight forces us to confront and think again the methods we predict approximately habit, trauma, future health, illegal activity, and responsibility.

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