Sit Down and Drink Your Beer : : Regulating Vancouver's Beer Parlours, 1925-1954 / / Robert A. Campbell.
When public drinking returned to much of Canada with the end of Prohibition, former hotel saloons were transformed into closely regulated beer parlours, where beer was served in glasses and only to seated patrons. No entertainment was allowed, not even singing, and eventually there were separate ent...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in Gender and History
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction. Regulating Public Drinking
- Chapter One. The Genesis of the Beer Parlou
- Chapter Two. Operators and Workers: The Ties That Bind
- Chapter Three. Ladies and Escorts: Regulating and Negotiating Gender and Sexuality
- Chapter Four. Appearance and Performance: Creating and Regulating the Unwanted
- Chapter Five. Reconfiguring Decency in the 1950s: The Politics of Regulation
- Conclusion. Managing the Marginal
- Notes
- References
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- Backmatter