Gender, Drink and Drugs (Paperback, English ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berg Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
Release date:	June 1994
First published:	1994
Editors:	Maryon McDonald
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	282
Edition:	English ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-85496-867-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > Drug addiction & substance abuse
LSN:	0-85496-867-9
Barcode:	9780854968671

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