In this ethnography of addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco, Kelly Ray Knight examines the myriad struggles these women face, as well as their encounters with social and medical institutions. She asks: what kinds of futures are possible for these women?

Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction  1

1. Consumption and Insecurity  33

2. Addicted Pregnancy and Time  68

3. Neurocratic Futures in the Disability Economy  102

4. Street Psychiatrics and New Configurations of Madness  125

5. Stratified Reproduction and the Kin of Last Resort  151

6. Victim-Perpetrators  178

Conclusion  206

Appendix  240

Notes  247

Bibliography  279

Index  297