Lady Lushes : Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America / Michelle L. McClellan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McClellan, Michelle L., Author.

Series:

Critical issues in health and medicine.

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Alcohol use--United States--History.

Women.

Women alcoholics--United States--History.

Women alcoholics.

Alcoholism--United States--History.

Alcoholism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm.)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

According 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Female Inebriate in the Temperance Paradigm

Chapter 2. "Lit Ladies": Women's Drinking during the Progressive Era and Prohibition

Chapter 3. "More to Overcome than the Men": Women in Alcoholics Anonymous

Chapter 4. Defining a Disease: Gender, Stigma, and the Modern Alcoholism Movement

Chapter 5. "A Special Masculine Neurosis": Psychiatrists Look at Alcoholism

Chapter 6. "The Doctor Didn't Want to Take an Alcoholic": The Challenge of Medicalization at Midcentury

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780813577005

0813577004

9780813576992

0813576997

OCLC:

1012765294