Lady Lushes: Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America by Michelle L. McClellan

Lady Lushes: Gender, Alcoholism, and Medicine in Modern America

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Michelle L. McClellan

254 pages first pub 2017 (view editions)

nonfiction gender health history sociology
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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. From the glamorous hard-drinki...

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