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Learning Limits College Women, Drugs, and Relationships
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Kimberly M. Williams
Book Code: G741
ISBN: 0-89789-741-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-741-9
224 pages, charts, tables, appendices
Bergin & Garvey Paperback
Publication: 2/28/2000
List Price: $36.95 (UK Sterling Price: £21.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Paperback
Also Available: Hardcover
Subjects: Reviews:
  • In this unique study, Williams uses focused in-depth interviews and personal journals to explore how a particular group of women living in the environment of a large, northeastern, private university view their drug use and social relationships....The book is interesting, insightful, and instructive. Recommended for readers interested in feminist research dealing with substance use and/or abuse.
    —Choice
  • This enlightening and well-constructed study, which makes use of the illuminating, often touching words of the college women themselves, adds an important link in our understanding of the context in which drugs and alcohol are used on campus.
    —Journal of College Student Psychotherapy
Description: According to the findings of this study, college women do not typically use drugs simply for the sake of taking drugs. Drug use was viewed as a part of relationships, and for some of these women, a very important part. Within their relationships, these women socially constructed drugs in traditional (i.e., using discourses of morality, legality, and health/personal safety) ways. They also tended to arrange drugs hierarchically--they created what the author labels an "individualized drug acceptability ranking" that helped them determine their drug using limits. This study suggests that the decisions to use drugs are more complicated than previous literature has suggested. Studies attempting to find correlations between college student drug use, personality traits of drug abusers, gender differences, racial differences, parental influences and educational influences continue to dominate the literature on college student drug use. This book provides a starting point and an invitation to listen to more voices to determine other factors that influence one's drug using decisions.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction:The College Drug Tales of 73 Women
  • Relationships with Other Women
  • Drug Use and Finding Like-Using Female Friends
  • Drug Use and Keeping Female Friends
  • Drug Use and Separating From Friends
  • Drug Use and Romantic Relationships
  • Drug Use and Finding Boyfriends
  • Drug Use and Keeping Boyfriends
  • Losing or Separating from Male Friends and Boyfriends
  • The Social Construction and Ranking of Drugs Within Relationships
  • The Social Construction of Drugs
  • The Individualized Drug Acceptability Ranking
  • Conclusions and Implications
  • Appendix A: Selected Text From the Report of the Results from the University's Core Alcohol and Drug Survey Spring 1996
  • Appendix B: Informed Consent Letter
  • Appendix C: The Drug Acceptability Ranking Composite
  • Appendix D: An Example of an Individual Drug Acceptability Ranking
  • Appendix E: An Example of an Individual Drug Acceptabiltiy Ranking
  • References
  • Index
LC Card Number: 97-31520
LCC Class: HV5824
Dewey Class: 362
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