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Alcohol, sex, and gender in late medieval and early modern Europe

Author: A Lynn Martin
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
Series: Early modern history (Palgrave (Firm))
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: A Lynn Martin
ISBN: 0312234147 9780312234140 0333922425 9780333922422 0333711947 9780333711941
OCLC Number: 43487286
Description: x, 200 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The functions of alcohol in traditional Europe --
Variations over time and place --
Alcohol, sex, and gender --
Sources and method --
Women and Alcohol --
Abstinent and temperate women --
Drinking women --
The functions of alcohol --
Playing with statistics --
Explaining it away --
Sex and Alcohol --
The symbolism of alcohol --
Conception and pregnancy --
Variations on Lot and Terence --
Weddings --
Alehouses, Taverns, and Prostitutes --
The sociability of drinking --
The devil's church --
Prostitutes --
Female keepers --
The clientele --
Sexual Encounters --
Foreplay --
Seduction and rape --
In alehouses and taverns --
Promiscuity and impotence --
Unruly Women and Violent Men --
The unruly woman in literature --
The unruly woman in 'life' --
Drinking men --
Alcohol and violence --
Husbands and Wives --
Good fellows and shrewish wives --
The economic cost of drinking --
Adultery --
Domestic violence --
Domestic harmony.
Series Title: Early modern history (Palgrave (Firm))
Responsibility: A. Lynn Martin.
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