Abstract
Book review.
Highlights
Ray Knight’s ethnography, addicted. pregnant. poor, gifts its readers with a thoughtful, level-headed, and even dispassionate account of women in San Francisco’s Mission District who face truly searing traumas
It is hard to imagine how four years of ethnographic work among this population could be done without periods of burn-out, and I am grateful the author persisted
Her goal is “to tease out the threads that construct a web of apparent intractability for women who are categorized as addicted, pregnant, poor” (6)
Summary
Ray Knight’s ethnography, addicted. pregnant. poor, gifts its readers with a thoughtful, level-headed, and even dispassionate account of women in San Francisco’s Mission District who face truly searing traumas. I have let it slip during our conversation that it is very hard for me, personally, as a mother, to bear witness to pregnant women smoking crack.
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