Love on the Rocks: men, women, and alcohol in post-World War II America /Lori RotskoffTahoma GenevaChapel Hill :; University of North Carolina Press, 2002Tahoma Genevaxi, 307 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN:Geneva 0807827282 (cloth : alk. paper); 0807854026 (pbk. : alk. paper) Tahoma6666,6666,6666Contents: GenevaAcknowledgments -- 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.