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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Critical issues in health and medicine
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Alcohol use -- United States -- History.
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Women -- Alcohol use. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Women alcoholics -- United States -- History.
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Women alcoholics. |
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Alcoholism -- United States -- History.
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Alcoholism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780813576985 0813576989 (DLC) 2016043247 (OCoLC)959035788 |
| ISBN |
9780813577005 (electronic book) |
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0813577004 (electronic book) |
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9780813576985 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0813576989 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813576978 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0813576970 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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