| dc.creator | VanHooser, Sarah Elizabeth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-22T17:10:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-06-24 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-06-24 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-06232009-170133 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12670 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Prostitution, drug addiction, and their surrounding issues have long been topics of political, theoretical, and practical import. Furthermore, they offer a particularly insightful lens through which to interrogate concepts of freedom and justice. This paper is a qualitative ethnographic study that examines the experiences of women previously involved in drug addiction and street prostitution, who are now living and working in a recovery community. In this dissertation, I discuss some of the many material, social, and political conditions that influence women’s freedom. Furthermore, I explore community members’ understandings of the concept of freedom, and the ways in which their freedom is affected by the recovery community of which they are a part. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.subject | freedom | |
| dc.title | Freedom Means | |
| dc.type | dissertation | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Mary Beth Shinn | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | C. Melissa Snarr | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Paul R. Dokecki | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Joseph Cunningham | |
| dc.type.material | text | |
| thesis.degree.name | PHD | |
| thesis.degree.level | dissertation | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Community Research and Action | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University | |
| local.embargo.terms | 2011-06-24 | |
| local.embargo.lift | 2011-06-24 | |
| dc.contributor.committeeChair | Craig Anne Heflinger | |
