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Gender, Drink and Drugs (Paperback, English ed)
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Gender, Drink and Drugs (Paperback, English ed)
Series: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
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Why do so many people feel compelled to drink alcohol or take
drugs? And why do so many men drink and so many women refrain?
Using ideas from social anthropology, this book attempts to provide
a novel answer to these questions. The introduction surveys both
gender and addiction. It points out that we cannot say what men or
women are really like, in any culturally innocent sense, for gender
is always, even in the realm of biology, a cultural matter. The
ethnographic chapters, ranging from Ancient Rome to modern Japan,
similarly suggest how any substance - from alcohol to tea to heroin
- inevitably takes its meaning or reality in the cultural system in
which it exists.
This book will be of interest to medical anthropologists, medical
sociologists, anyone with an interest in the contemporary direction
of anthropology as well as those working in the fields of alcohol
and addiction.
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