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Love on the Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America
Lori Rotskoff
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Description for Love on the Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America
Paperback. Drawing on short stories, adverts, medical writings and Hollywood films, this study explores gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popular ideas about drinking and alcoholism in post-war America. Series: Gender and American Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFFH; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
Assessing America's cocktail culture; In this fascinating history of alcohol in postwar American culture, Lori Rotskoff draws on short stories, advertisements, medical writings, and Hollywood films to investigate how gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popular ideas about drinking and alcoholism. After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, recreational drinking became increasingly accepted among white, suburban, middle-class men and women. But excessive or habitual drinking plagued many families. How did people view the ""problem drinkers"" in their midst? How did husbands and wives learn to cope within an ""alcoholic marriage?"" And how was drinking linked to ... Read more
Assessing America's cocktail culture; In this fascinating history of alcohol in postwar American culture, Lori Rotskoff draws on short stories, advertisements, medical writings, and Hollywood films to investigate how gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popular ideas about drinking and alcoholism. After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, recreational drinking became increasingly accepted among white, suburban, middle-class men and women. But excessive or habitual drinking plagued many families. How did people view the ""problem drinkers"" in their midst? How did husbands and wives learn to cope within an ""alcoholic marriage?"" And how was drinking linked to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Gender and American Culture
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807854020
SKU
V9780807854020
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About Lori Rotskoff
Lori Rotskoff teaches history at Sarah Lawrence College and has previously taught American studies at Yale University. She lives in Larchmont, New York.
Reviews for Love on the Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America
"Rotskoff, who writes wonderfully well, has filled a blank in the (gendered) social history of American drinking and sobriety from Prohibition through the fifties: a subtle, engaging, and now indispensable study." - John W. Crowley, author of The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in Modernist American Fiction