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Women drinking out in Britain since the early twentieth century /

Against a background of recent media coverage of women's drinking habits, this book provides not just a survey spanning a century of momentous change, but integrates diverse sources with concepts to offer a new understanding of the changing nature of women's drinking patterns. It challenge...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gutzke, David W., 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Colección:Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. From the late Victorian boozer to the interwar improved public house
  • 2. Women, war and drinking
  • 3. A tough sell : wooing women in the 1950s- 60s
  • 4. Bikinis, boots and booze
  • 5. The more things change, the more (some) things remain the same
  • 6. Drinking habits of their own
  • 7. Men are from Mars, women from Venus : understanding the psychology of selling alcohol in the 1980s-90s
  • 8. New money, new ideas, new women
  • 9. A youth subculture of drinking
  • 10. Yesterday's reforms, today's bingeing
  • 11. Folk devils and moral panics : women and youth across a century of censure.