The drinking curriculum : a cultural history of childhood and alcohol / Elizabeth Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, Elizabeth, 1768-1836, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Alcohol use.

Children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2024]

Summary:

A lively exploration into America's preoccupation with childhood innocence and its corruptionIn The Drinking Curriculum, Elizabeth Marshall brings the taboo topic of alcohol and childhood into the limelight. Marshall coins the term "the drinking curriculum" to describe how a paradoxical set of cultural lessons about childhood are fueled by adult anxieties and preoccupations. By analyzing popular and widely accessible texts in visual culture-temperance tracts, cartoons, film, advertise­ments, and public-service announcements-Marshall demonstrates how youth are targets of mixed messages about intoxication. Those messages range from the overtly violent to the humorous, the moralistic to the profane. Offering a critical and, at times, irreverent analysis of dominant protec­tionist paradigms that sanctify childhood as implicitly innocent, The Drinking Curriculum centers the graphic narratives our culture uses to teach about alcohol, the roots of these pictorial tales in the nineteenth century, and the discursive hangover we nurse into the twenty-first.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Learning to Drink

Lesson One: D is for Drunkard

Lesson Two: No Pets, No Drunks, No Children

Lesson Three: "Friends Don't Let Friends Drink and Drive"

Lesson Four: It's Funny When Kids Drink

Lesson Five: Mommy Needs a Cocktail

Final Exam

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Marshall, Elizabeth The Drinking Curriculum

ISBN:

1-5315-0526-0

OCLC:

1409031897