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

by Michelle L. McClellan

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-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," alcohol consumption by American women has been seen as both a prerogative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813576989
• ISBN13: 9780813576985
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher