Lady lushes : gender, alcoholism, and medicine in modern America /
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| Author / Creator: | McClellan, Michelle L., author. |
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| Imprint: | New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017] |
| Description: | vii, 237 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical issues in health and medicine Critical issues in health and medicine. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11551655 |
Table of 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.
