Bibliograph

Lady lushes, gender, alcoholism, and medicine in modern America, Michelle L. McClellan

Type

Label

Lady lushes, gender, alcoholism, and medicine in modern America, Michelle L. McClellan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lady lushes

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

959035788

Responsibility statement

Michelle L. McClellan

Series statement

Critical issues in health and medicine

Sub title

gender, alcoholism, and medicine in modern America

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

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