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Lady lushes : gender, alcoholism, and medicine in modern America / Michelle L. McClellan.
LIBRA HV5137 .M425 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McClellan, Michelle L., author.
- Series:
- Critical issues in health and medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Alcohol use--United States--History.
- Women.
- Women--Alcohol use.
- Alcoholism.
- History.
- Women alcoholics.
- United States.
- Women alcoholics--United States--History.
- Alcoholism--United States--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 237 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813576985
- 0813576989
- 9780813576978
- 0813576970
- OCLC:
- 959035788
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