Lady Lushes: Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (604 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813576970 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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?"?Lady Lushes is an impressive and major contribution to women's studies and the History of Medicine in the United States."
Lady Lushes offers a fresh perspective on the importance of gender role ideology in the formation of medical knowledge and authority. In Lady Lushes, medical historian Michelle L. 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. McClellan traces the story of the female alcoholic from the late-nineteenth through the twentieth century. 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,” alcoho