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OverviewAccording 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 and alcoholic wife and mother played by Lee Remick in the 1962 film “Days of Wine and Roses,” alcohol consumption by American women has been seen as both a prerogative and as a threat to health, happiness, and the social order. 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 to demonstrate the persistence of the belief that alcohol use is antithetical to an idealized feminine role, particularly one that glorifies motherhood. Lady Lushes offers a fresh perspective on the importance of gender role ideology in the formation of medical knowledge and authority. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michelle L. McClellanPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.365kg ISBN: 9780813576978ISBN 10: 0813576970 Pages: 254 Publication Date: 30 November 2017 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Female Inebriate in the Temperance Paradigm 2 “Lit Ladies”: Women’s Drinking during the Progressive Era and Prohibition 3 “More to Overcome Than the Men”: Women in Alcoholics Anonymous 4 Defining a Disease: Gender, Stigma, and the Modern Alcoholism Movement 5 “A Special Masculine Neurosis”: Psychiatrists Look at Alcoholism 6 “The Doctor Didn’t Want to Take an Alcoholic”: The Challenge of Medicalization at Mid-Century Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography IndexReviews? <i>?Lady Lushes</i> is an impressive and major contribution to women's studies and the History of Medicine in the United States. --David M. Fahey author of Alcohol and Drugs in North America: A Historical Encyclopedia Author InformationMICHELLE L. McCLELLAN is an assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she is also the director of the Public History Initiative, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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