Lady Lushes: Gender, Alcoholism, And Medicine In Modern America (Critical Issues In Health And Medicine)

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--including medical literature, archival materials, popular media, and autobiographical writings of alcoholic women--to demonstrate the persistence of the belief that alcohol use is antithetical to an idealized feminine role.

• | Author: Michelle L. McClellan
• | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 30, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 254 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Medical
• | ISBN-10: 0813576989
• | ISBN-13: 9780813576985