Research Catalog

Title

Gender, drink and drugs / edited by Maryon McDonald.

Publication

Oxford ; Providence, RI, USA : Berg, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

McDonald, Maryon.

Description

271 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; vol. 10

Uniform Title

Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 10.

Subjects

• Women > Drug use > Cross-cultural studies
• Drinking of alcoholic beverages > Cross-cultural studies
• Drug abuse > Cross-cultural studies
• Women > Alcohol use > Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction - A Social-Anthropological View of Gender, Drink and Drugs / Maryon McDonald -- 1. Women and Alcohol: The Emergence of a Risk Group / Betsy Thom -- 2. The Police, Gender and the Culture of Drug Use and Addiction / Malcolm Young -- 3. Symptoms, Struggles and Functions: What Does the Overdose Represent? / Roland Littlewood -- 4. Drinking and Social Identity in the West of France / Maryon McDonald -- 5. Whisky, Women and the Scottish Drink Problem. A View from the Highlands / Sharon Macdonald -- 6. Gender, Ethnicity and Alcohol in the Former Soviet Union / Tamara Dragadze -- 7. The Drinker as Chief or Rebel: Kava and Alcohol in Fiji / Christina Toren -- 8. Drinking and Gender in Japan / Joy Hendry -- 9. Women and Wine in Ancient Rome / Nicholas Purcell -- 10. Gender, Community and Confrontation: Power Relations in Drunkenness in Ocongate (Southern Peru) / Penny Harvey -- 11. Drinking and the Management of Problem Drinking Among the Bari, Southern Sudan / Guro Huby.
• 12. Women, Moral Virtue and Tchat-chewing / Astier M. Almedom and Sembatu Abraham.

ISBN

• 0854967192 (cloth)
• 0854968679 (paper)

LCCN

93033151

OCLC

ocm28854365

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries