Ebook: Lady Lushes: Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America
Author: Michelle L. McClellan
- Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Language: English
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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.
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