Lady Lushes

Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America

Michelle L. McClellan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2017
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-7698-5 (ISBN)

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Medical historian Michelle L. McClellan traces the story of the female alcoholic from the late-nineteenth through the twentieth century. She draws on a range of sources to demonstrate the persistence of the belief that alcohol use is antithetical to an idealized feminine role, particularly one that glorifies motherhood.

According to the popular press in the mid twentieth century, American women, in a misguided attempt to act like men in work and leisure, were drinking more. “Lady Lushes” were becoming a widespread social phenomenon. From the glamorous hard-drinking flapper of the 1920s to the disgraced and alcoholic wife and mother played by Lee Remick in the 1962 film “Days of Wine and Roses,” alcohol consumption by American women has been seen as both a prerogative and as a threat to health, happiness, and the social order.

In Lady Lushes, medical historian Michelle L. McClellan traces the story of the female alcoholic from the late-nineteenth through the twentieth century. She draws on a range of sources to demonstrate the persistence of the belief that alcohol use is antithetical to an idealized feminine role, particularly one that glorifies motherhood. Lady Lushes offers a fresh perspective on the importance of gender role ideology in the formation of medical knowledge and authority.

MICHELLE L. McCLELLAN is an assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she is also the director of the Public History Initiative, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

Introduction
1   The Female Inebriate in the Temperance Paradigm
2   “Lit Ladies”: Women’s Drinking during the Progressive Era and Prohibition
3   “More to Overcome Than the Men”: Women in Alcoholics Anonymous
4   Defining a Disease: Gender, Stigma, and the Modern Alcoholism Movement
5   “A Special Masculine Neurosis”: Psychiatrists Look at Alcoholism
6   “The Doctor Didn’t Want to Take an Alcoholic”: The Challenge of Medicalization at Mid-Century
Epilogue

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.11.2017
Reihe/Serie	Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8135-7698-9 / 0813576989
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-7698-5 / 9780813576985
Zustand	Neuware