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.