Abstract

MALITO, Diana Marisa Dias Freire. On the Strength of "Mothers of Crack": The Production of an Abnormality. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.2, pp.917-924.  Epub May 03, 2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2022.68660.

This critical review presents the book “Mothers of Crack”: The Production of an Abnormality, highlighting its contributions to psychologists and other workers of subjectivities that focus on the processes of social exclusion. The bodies of young pregnant women living on the streets, mostly black, challenge the normalizing references that historically sustain the knowledge-power places of specialists who offer them care, including those affected by the perspective of “human rights”. The book is the result of the doctoral thesis defended by Zelia Caldeira, in 2019, in the Postgraduate Program in Public Policy and Human Education at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (PPFH/Uerj). The author has been working in the field of attention to the harmful use of alcohol and other drugs since 1986 and their experiences support both analysis of daily practices aimed at pregnant drug users, as well as a problematization of drug policies in the macropolitical scenario. “Mães do Crack” calls us to active reflections on the care we offer to a historically marginalized population. In this sense, this review is built on the seam between the presentation of the work and analysis of the place of social worker occupied by the present reader.

Keywords : drugs; maternity; subjectivation processes; public policies..

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