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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical issues in health and medicinePublication details: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813577005
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV5137 .L339 2017
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Contents:
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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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.

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