| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Critical issues in health and medicine |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The female inebriate in the temperance paradigm -- "Lit ladies": women's drinking during the Progressive era and Prohibition -- "More to overcome than the men": women in Alcoholics Anonymous -- Defining a disease: gender, stigma, and the modern alcoholism movement -- "A special masculine neurosis": psychiatrists look at alcoholism -- "The doctor didn't want to take an alcoholic": the challenge of medicalization at mid-century |
| Summary |
In Lady Lushes, medical historian Michelle L. McClellan traces the story of the female alcoholic from the late-nineteenth through the twentieth century. She draws on a range of sources--including medical literature, archival materials, popular media, and autobiographical writings of alcoholic women--to demonstrate the persistence of the belief that alcohol use is antithetical to an idealized feminine role |
| Analysis |
drinking, alcohol, drinking alcohol, beer, wine, scoth, brandy, whiskey, liquor, liquer, women, alcoholic, alcoholism, AA, alcoholics anonymous, drunk, gender, women drinking, lush, tipsy, buzzed, drunkard, blackout, black-out |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women -- Alcohol use -- United States -- History
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Women alcoholics -- United States -- History
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Alcoholism -- United States -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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MEDICAL -- History.
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Alcoholism
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Women -- Alcohol use
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Women alcoholics
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016043247 |
| ISBN |
9780813577005 |
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0813577004 |
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