Gender, drink, and drugs

by McDonald, Maryon

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Title Statements

Full title :Gender, drink, and drugs / edited by Maryon McDonald.

Summary

Why do so many people feel compelled to drink alcohol or take drugs? And why do so many men drink and so many women refrain? Using ideas from social anthropology, this book attempts to provide a novel answer to these questions. The introduction surveys both gender and addiction. It points out that we cannot say what men or women are really like, in any culturally innocent sense, for gender is always, even in the realm of biology, a cultural matter. The ethnographic chapters, ranging from Ancient Rome to modern Japan, similarly suggest how any substance - from alcohol to tea to heroin - inevitably takes its meaning or reality in the cultural system in which it exists. This book will be of interest to medical anthropologists, medical sociologists, anyone with an interest in the contemporary direction of anthropology as well as those working in the fields of alcohol and addiction.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

Notes

"First published 1994 by Berg Publishers"--Title page verso

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781003135043, 1003135048, 9781000323146, 1000323145, 9781000321456, 1000321452, 9781000324938, 1000324931
DOI:10.4324/9781003135043
oclc:on1190776894
LC Classification:HV5137
Dewey Decimal:362.292082

Women and Alcohol: The Emergence of a Risk Group, B. Thom -- The Police, Gender and the Culture of Drug Use and Addiction, M. Young -- Symptoms, Struggles and Functions: What Does the Overdose Represent?, R. Littlewood -- Whisky, Women and the Scottish Drink Problem, S. Macdonald -- Gender, Ethnicity and Alcohol in the Former Soviet Union, T. Dragadze

Subjects

Consommation d'alcool -- Études transcu… Cross-cultural studies Drinking of alcoholic beverages Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Cros… Drug abuse Drug abuse -- Cross-cultural studies Femmes -- Études transculturelles. -- C… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology Toxicomanie -- Études transculturelles Women -- Alcohol use Women -- Cross-cultural studies. -- Alc… Women -- Cross-cultural studies. -- Dru… Women -- Drug use