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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lori Rotskoff |
| ISBN: | 0807827282 9780807827284 0807854026 9780807854020 |
| OCLC Number: | 49031937 |
| Description: | xi, 307 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Cultures of drink in Prohibition and post-repeal America -- Dissolute manhood and the rituals of intemperance ; Righteous womanhood and the politics of temperance ; Depression, war, and the rise of social drinking ; Drink, gender, and sociability in the 1930s and 1940s -- Engendering the alcoholic -- From intemperance to alcoholism ; Diagnosing the alcoholic man ; Problem drinkers and returning veterans in postwar popular culture -- Alcoholics Anonymous and the culture of sobriety -- Social foundations of mutual help in the 1930s and 1940s ; Early membership of Alcoholics Anonymous ; Gendered rituals of fellowship ; Gendered narratives of illness and recovery -- Dilemma of the alcoholic marriage -- Diagnosing the alcoholic's wife ; Wives of AA and Al-Anon in the 1940s and 1950s ; Rehabilitating the alcoholic marriage -- Drink and domesticity in postwar America -- Alcoholic culture of the postwar suburbs ; Alcohol and family trouble in postwar fiction and popular culture ; Drinking, consumerism, and the cultural significance of alcoholism. |
| Series Title: | Gender & American culture. |
| Responsibility: | by Lori Rotskoff. |
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