Recovering Women

"Recovering Women: Feminisms and the Representation of Addiction seeks to clarify the status of feminisms in contemporary culture and specify the problematics of feminist recovery rhetorics that respond to the representations of women in cultural practices. The female "addict" - in film, literature, art, and academics - emerges as the exigency to the question of feminism and lays bare the intersecting vectors of power that structure recovery."--BOOK JACKET.