Love on the Rocks: men, women, and alcohol in post-World War II America
/Lori Rotskoff
Chapel Hill :; University of North Carolina Press, 2002
xi, 307 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0807827282 (cloth : alk. paper); 0807854026 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Cultures of drink in Prohibition and
post-repeal America -- Dissolute manhood and the rituals of
intemperance ; Righteous womanhood and the politics of temperance ;
Depression, war, and the rise of social drinking ; Drink, gender, and
sociability in the 1930s and 1940s -- Engendering the alcoholic -- From
intemperance to alcoholism ; Diagnosing the alcoholic man ; Problem
drinkers and returning veterans in postwar popular culture --
Alcoholics Anonymous and the culture of sobriety -- Social foundations
of mutual help in the 1930s and 1940s ; Early membership of Alcoholics
Anonymous ; Gendered rituals of fellowship ; Gendered narratives of
illness and recovery -- Dilemma of the alcoholic marriage -- Diagnosing
the alcoholic's wife ; Wives of AA and Al-Anon in the 1940s and 1950s ;
Rehabilitating the alcoholic marriage -- Drink and domesticity in
postwar America -- Alcoholic culture of the postwar suburbs ; Alcohol
and family trouble in postwar fiction and popular culture ; Drinking,
consumerism, and the cultural significance of alcoholism.