Lady lushes : gender, alcoholism, and medicine in modern America /
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-...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press
[2017]
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| Series: | Critical issues in health and medicine
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1pwtdn0 |
Table of 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.