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Hutton looks at Manchester and Oxford to provide a comparative
history of anatomical study. Using the Anatomy Act as a focal
point, she examines how these two cities dealt with the need for
bodies over two centuries.
Hutton looks at Manchester and Oxford to provide a comparative
history of anatomical study. Using the Anatomy Act as a focal
point, she examines how these two cities dealt with the need for
bodies over two centuries.
In this book Fiona Hutton provides a fascinating insight into
women's experiences of clubbing. Based on a rich ethnographic
account of the Manchester club scene, Risky Pleasures? is set
within the context of the theoretical literature on youth
subcultures, female friendship, consumption, risk and the city. The
work highlights both the producers of club scenes - promoters, DJs,
dealers - and the consumers - women negotiating pleasure and risk
in club spaces and in the city at night. It explores the range of
club spaces, developing a typology of 'mainstream' and
'underground' clubs, and considers how different types of
participants are attracted to different 'scenes'. It examines
women's recreational drug-use within a club context and discusses
issues of sexuality, tolerance and the importance of 'attitude' in
terms of women's feelings of safety. Revealing the important role
of different spaces and different atmospheres in how women
participate in club scenes, Fiona Hutton argues that drug taking
and sexual pleasure are always contextualized within the
environments created in different spaces, and that the risk and
danger negotiated by women clubbers are counterbalanced by fun and
pleasure - and ultimately empowerment.
In this book Fiona Hutton provides a fascinating insight into
women's experiences of clubbing. Based on a rich ethnographic
account of the Manchester club scene, Risky Pleasures? is set
within the context of the theoretical literature on youth
subcultures, female friendship, consumption, risk and the city. The
work highlights both the producers of club scenes - promoters, DJs,
dealers - and the consumers - women negotiating pleasure and risk
in club spaces and in the city at night. It explores the range of
club spaces, developing a typology of 'mainstream' and
'underground' clubs, and considers how different types of
participants are attracted to different 'scenes'. It examines
women's recreational drug-use within a club context and discusses
issues of sexuality, tolerance and the importance of 'attitude' in
terms of women's feelings of safety. Revealing the important role
of different spaces and different atmospheres in how women
participate in club scenes, Fiona Hutton argues that drug taking
and sexual pleasure are always contextualized within the
environments created in different spaces, and that the risk and
danger negotiated by women clubbers are counterbalanced by fun and
pleasure - and ultimately empowerment.
This book considers the global discourses and debates about
'intoxication', engaging in critical academic discussion around
this concept. The problems in defining intoxication are considered,
alongside the meanings of intoxication and how these meanings often
differ across diverse drug using populations. The way that
intoxication has been engaged with over the centuries has affected
how particular groups are perceived and responded to, resulting in
punitive responses such as drug prohibition, alongside harsh
treatment of those who are seen to transgress societal norms and
values. Therefore, this collection seeks to unsettle dominant
discourses about intoxication and to consider this concept in new,
critical ways. Ways of being intoxicated are also defined in this
book in their broadest sense; from 'energy drinks' and other legal
drugs, to recreational use of illicit drugs such as ecstasy, to
'problematic' drug use.
This book considers the global discourses and debates about
'intoxication', engaging in critical academic discussion around
this concept. The problems in defining intoxication are considered,
alongside the meanings of intoxication and how these meanings often
differ across diverse drug using populations. The way that
intoxication has been engaged with over the centuries has affected
how particular groups are perceived and responded to, resulting in
punitive responses such as drug prohibition, alongside harsh
treatment of those who are seen to transgress societal norms and
values. Therefore, this collection seeks to unsettle dominant
discourses about intoxication and to consider this concept in new,
critical ways. Ways of being intoxicated are also defined in this
book in their broadest sense; from 'energy drinks' and other legal
drugs, to recreational use of illicit drugs such as ecstasy, to
'problematic' drug use.
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