Worlds Colliding: Trans-disciplinary approaches to gender and addictions

Autor: McClellan, Michelle L., Glover Reed, Beth, Becker, Jill B.
Zdroj: The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs; December 2017, Vol. 31 Issue: 1 p107-125, 19p
Abstrakt: This paper recounts and analyzes our experiences as a trans- and multi-disciplinary team that has been collaborating on issues related to gender and addiction for more than five years. The three authors are an historian, a neuroscientist, and a community/clinical psychologist. We seek to transcend a long-standing division between positivists and constructivists that has limited feminist analysis of and approaches to problems faced by women and girls who struggle with addiction. We combine strategies from the field of public history with insights from interdisciplinary practice, including the creation of boundary objects. We recount challenges in developing collaborative models across disciplines and approaches, including differences in methods, vocabulary, and priorities. We pay particular attention to the roles that historians can play in fostering cross-disciplinary communication and in connecting theory and practice.
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