Lady lushes gender, alcoholism, and medicine in modern America /
McClellan, Michelle L.,
Lady lushes gender, alcoholism, and medicine in modern America / Michelle L. McClellan. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Critical issues in health and medicine .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780813577005
Women--Alcohol use--History.--United States
Women alcoholics--History.--United States
Alcoholism--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
HV5137 / .L339 2017
Lady lushes gender, alcoholism, and medicine in modern America / Michelle L. McClellan. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Critical issues in health and medicine .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780813577005
Women--Alcohol use--History.--United States
Women alcoholics--History.--United States
Alcoholism--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
HV5137 / .L339 2017