Lady lushes : gender, alcoholism, and medicine in modern America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McClellan, Michelle L. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Series:	Critical issues in health and medicine.
Subjects:	Women > Alcohol use > United States > History. Women alcoholics > United States > History. Alcoholism > United States > History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The female inebriate in the temperance paradigm
"Lit ladies": women's drinking during the Progressive era and Prohibition
"More to overcome than the men": women in Alcoholics Anonymous
Defining a disease: gender, stigma, and the modern alcoholism movement
"A special masculine neurosis": psychiatrists look at alcoholism
"The doctor didn't want to take an alcoholic": the challenge of medicalization at mid-century.