High Vitality Cooking for Health (Kitchen Doctor Series)
Author: Maggie Pannell
The right food can make a big difference to health, and this fantastic Kitchen Doctor series provides the health conscious home cook with a multitude of delicious recipes and healthy eating advice in every volume.
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Love on the Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America
Author: Lori Rotskoff
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 broader social concerns during the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War era?
By the 1950s, Rotskoff explains, mental health experts, movie producers, and members of self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon helped bring about a shift in the public perception of alcoholism from "sin" to "sickness." Yet alcoholism was also viewed as a family problem that expressed gender-role failure for both women and men. On the silver screen (in movies such as The Lost Weekend and The Best Years of Our Lives) and on the printed page (in stories by writers such as John Cheever), in hospitals and at Twelve Step meetings, chronic drunkenness became one of the most pressing public health issues of the day.
John W. Crowley
Lori 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.
What People Are Saying
John W. Crowley
Lori 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)
Table of Contents:
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Ch. 1 | Cultures of Drink in Prohibition and Post-Repeal America | 17 |
| Dissolute Manhood and the Rituals of Intemperance | 17 |
| Righteous Womanhood and the Politics of Temperance | 27 |
| Depression, War, and the Rise of Social Drinking | 34 |
| Drink, Gender, and Sociability in the 1930s and 1940s | 52 |
| Ch. 2 | Engendering the Alcoholic | 61 |
| From Intemperance to Alcoholism | 61 |
| Diagnosing the Alcoholic Man | 69 |
| Problem Drinkers and Returning Veterans in Postwar Popular Culture | 86 |
| Ch. 3 | Alcoholics Anonymous and the Culture of Sobriety | 105 |
| The Social Foundations of Mutual Help in the 1930s and 1940s | 105 |
| The Early Membership of Alcoholics Anonymous | 114 |
| Gendered Rituals of Fellowship | 122 |
| Gendered Narratives of Illness and Recovery | 139 |
| Ch. 4 | The Dilemma of the Alcoholic Marriage | 149 |
| Diagnosing the Alcoholic's Wife | 149 |
| The Wives of AA and Al-Anon in the 1940s and 1950s | 162 |
| Rehabilitating the Alcoholic Marriage | 171 |
| Ch. 5 | Drink and Domesticity in Postwar America | 194 |
| The Alcoholic Culture of the Postwar Subjects | 194 |
| Alcohol and Family Trouble in Postwar Fiction and Popular Culture | 211 |
| Drinking, Consumerism, and the Cultural Significance of Alcoholism | 228 |
| Conclusion | 235 |
| Notes | 243 |
| Bibliography | 283 |
| Index | 301 |
