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Love on the rocks : men, women, and alcohol in post-World War II America

Author: Lori Rotskoff
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.
Series: Gender & American culture.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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