This current study has emerged from two decades of the author's
investigations in related areas: alcoholism and domestic relations.
Its canvas is broadly comparative, drawing on interviews and data
gathered in the United States and Finland. The domestic drama of
"The Other Half "is played out both in the private scene of the
home and the more public scene of the workplace, and against these
two differing national backgrounds. Despite the many expected and
perceived cultural differences between the countries, the effects
of alcoholism on the family are shown to be the same.
Dr. Wiseman's study offers theoretical insights gleaned from its
perspective on alcoholism as an interactive phenomenon, to which
the concepts of G.H. Mead and Blumer can be applied to illuminate
the carefully presented data and go beyond them. New terrain in
studies of alcoholism is thereby explored, including such themes as
the social construction by the subjects of their husbands'
drinking, their marriage and their self-images; the strategy of
coping mechanisms; and the effects of the crisis of alcoholism on
gender, sex roles, and power differentials.
"The Other Half "complements Dr. Wiseman's prize-winning work
on the treatment of Skid Row alcoholics, "Stations of the Lost,
"while involving issues of greater complexity on both the
methodological and theoretical plane.
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