Women and alcohol in social context : mother's ruin revisited /
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| Author / Creator: | Waterson, Jan, 1949- |
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York, N.Y. [USA] : Palgrave, 2000. |
| Description: | xiii, 223 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4436462 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: Have a Drink
- Revisiting notions of mother's ruin
- Perspectives on motherhood and drinking
- Double standards: male and female drinking
- Changing drinking patterns and problems
- The structure of this book
- 2. What Encourages Women to Drink?
- Employment opportunities
- Shared drinking norms
- Material and social stresses
- Difficulties and dissatisfactions
- Developing a social perspective
- Conclusion
- 3. Women Account for Drinking Differences
- Introducing the women
- Talking to them about drinking
- Their ideas about why drinking has increased
- Their knowledge about problem drinking
- Views on women with alcohol problems
- How difficulties arise
- Conclusion
- 4. Drinking Careers
- Emma and Margaret: heavy drinking professionals
- Anne and Eva: heavy drinking non-professionals
- Marie and Liz: light drinking professionals
- Judith and Monica: light drinking non-professionals
- Linking stories
- 5. Occupational Hazards
- Material and social support
- Paid work
- Balancing roles
- Conclusion
- 6. Social Circles
- Drinking to be sociable
- Changed patterns of socialising
- Families, partners and drinking
- Friends and drinking
- Drinking alone
- Conclusion
- 7. Bottling it up
- Times of low self-esteem
- Dealing with the unexpected
- Adjusting to motherhood
- It's all due to stress?
- 8. Satisfaction or Solace: Two Case Studies
- Pathways to drinking
- Geraldine's story
- Sophie's story
- Looking back
- Conclusion
- 9. Preventing Alcohol-related Harms
- Publicising alcohol risks for women
- Awareness of 'official' drinking advice
- Evaluating 'official' drinking advice
- Recognising the 'risk'
- Conclusion
- 10. Promoting Fair Shares for All
- Developing positive not harmful drinking
- Dealing with negative drinking
- Policy frameworks: measures for measures
- Conclusion
- References
- Index