Background
Chapkis, Wendy Lynn was born on September 2, 1954 in Pasadena, California, United States. Daughter of Robert Lynn and Marjorie Jean (King) Chapkis.
(Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and ...)
Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as hands-on accounts of contemporary commercial sexual practices. Scholarly, but never simply academic, this book is explicitly grounded in a concern for how competing political discourses work concretely in the world--to frame policy and define perceptions of AIDS, to mobilize women into opposing camps, to silence some agendas and to promote others.
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A provocative exploration of the links between appearance, gender and sexuality. Discusses beauty and ugliness, racism and beauty standards, and the role of class in shaping images of beauty.
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Dying to Get High with Susie Bright on Boing Boing! Warring Wines; ’You Want to Fight?’; Nurse Mary Jane in Santa Cruz High Times interviews the authors Alternet excerpt of the book ("How Pot Became Demonized") Discussion from the Santa Cruz Metro Marijuana as medicine has been a politically charged topic in this country for more than three decades. Despite overwhelming public support and growing scientific evidence of its therapeutic effects (relief of the nausea caused by chemotherapy for cancer and AIDS, control over seizures or spasticity caused by epilepsy or MS, and relief from chronic and acute pain, to name a few), the drug remains illegal under federal law. In Dying to Get High, noted sociologist Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb investigate one community of seriously-ill patients fighting the federal government for the right to use physician-recommended marijuana. Based in Santa Cruz, California, the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM) is a unique patient-caregiver cooperative providing marijuana free of charge to mostly terminally ill members. For a brief period in 2004, it even operated the only legal non-governmental medical marijuana garden in the country, protected by the federal courts against the DEA. Using as their stage this fascinating profile of one remarkable organization, Chapkis and Webb tackle the broader, complex history of medical marijuana in America. Through compelling interviews with patients, public officials, law enforcement officers and physicians, Chapkis and Webb ask what distinguishes a legitimate patient from an illegitimate pothead, good drugs from bad, medicinal effects from just getting high. Dying to Get High combines abstract argument and the messier terrain of how people actually live, suffer and die, and offers a moving account of what is at stake in ongoing debates over the legalization of medical marijuana.
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sociologist women's studies educator
Chapkis, Wendy Lynn was born on September 2, 1954 in Pasadena, California, United States. Daughter of Robert Lynn and Marjorie Jean (King) Chapkis.
Bachelor, University of California, 1977; Master of Arts, University of California, 1989; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, 1995.
Project director Transnat. Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1979-1986. Lecturer University California, Santa Cruz, 1989-1995.
Assistant professor University Southern Maine, Portland, 1995-1999, associate professor, 1999—2008, professor, since 2008. Resource development Santa Cruz Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome project, 1986-1990, WomenCare Cancer Advocacy, Santa Cruz, 1994.
( Dying to Get High with Susie Bright on Boing Boing! Wa...)
(Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and ...)
(Offers a moving account of what is at stake in ongoing de...)
( A provocative exploration of the links between appearan...)
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Member American Sociological Association, Society for Study of Social Problems, National Lesbian and Gay Task Force.
Married Gabriel Demaine, October 1989.