McClellan, Michelle L., <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813577005 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Alcohol use--History.--United States<br/>Women alcoholics--History.--United States<br/>Alcoholism--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV5137  / .L339 2017