| Description |
271 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 10 |
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Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 10
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| Contents |
Introduction - A Social-Anthropological View of Gender, Drink and Drugs / Maryon McDonald -- 1. Women and Alcohol: The Emergence of a Risk Group / Betsy Thom -- 2. The Police, Gender and the Culture of Drug Use and Addiction / Malcolm Young -- 3. Symptoms, Struggles and Functions: What Does the Overdose Represent? / Roland Littlewood -- 4. Drinking and Social Identity in the West of France / Maryon McDonald -- 5. Whisky, Women and the Scottish Drink Problem. A View from the Highlands / Sharon Macdonald -- 6. Gender, Ethnicity and Alcohol in the Former Soviet Union / Tamara Dragadze -- 7. The Drinker as Chief or Rebel: Kava and Alcohol in Fiji / Christina Toren -- 8. Drinking and Gender in Japan / Joy Hendry -- 9. Women and Wine in Ancient Rome / Nicholas Purcell -- 10. Gender, Community and Confrontation: Power Relations in Drunkenness in Ocongate (Southern Peru) / Penny Harvey -- 11. Drinking and the Management of Problem Drinking Among the Bari, Southern Sudan / Guro Huby |
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12. Women, Moral Virtue and Tchat-chewing / Astier M. Almedom and Sembatu Abraham |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Drug abuse -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Women -- Alcohol use -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Women -- Drug use -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Author |
McDonald, Maryon.
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| LC no. |
93033151 |
| ISBN |
0854967192 (cloth) |
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0854968679 (paper) |
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