Lady Lushes : : Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America / / Michelle L. McClellan.
According to the popular press in the mid twentieth century, American women, in a misguided attempt to act like men in work and leisure, were drinking more. "Lady Lushes" were becoming a widespread social phenomenon. From the glamorous hard-drinking flapper of the 1920s to the disgraced an...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Female Inebriate in the Temperance Paradigm
- Chapter 2. "Lit Ladies": Women's Drinking during the Progressive Era and Prohibition
- Chapter 3. "More to Overcome than the Men": Women in Alcoholics Anonymous
- Chapter 4. Defining a Disease: Gender, Stigma, and the Modern Alcoholism Movement
- Chapter 5. "A Special Masculine Neurosis": Psychiatrists Look at Alcoholism
- Chapter 6. "The Doctor Didn't Want to Take an Alcoholic": The Challenge of Medicalization at Midcentury
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index