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Lady Lushes - Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America (Hardcover)
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Lady Lushes - Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series
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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.
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