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Women drinking out in Britain since the early twentieth century /

Women's drinking has attracted enormous attention in recent years, but surprisingly this topic has not produced a comprehensive survey covering the twentieth century. Students and scholars alike can read this book to obtain a new perspective on women's drinking habits over more than a cent...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Gutzke, David W., 1949- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York [New York] : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Collection:Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.