Drink : the intimate relationship between women and alcohol
Over the past few decades, the feminist revolution has had enormous ramifications. Women outnumber their male counterparts in postsecondary education in most of the developed world and are about to do the same in the workplace. But what has not been fully documented or explored is that while women have gained equality in many arenas, they have also begun to close the gender gap on risky drinking. Binge drinking among women is on the rise, contributing exponentially to a wide array of health issues-a problem exacerbated by the alcohol industry itself. Battling for women's dollars and leisure time, corporations have developed marketing strategies and products targeted exclusively to women. Girls' Night Out wines, MommyJuice and Mommy's Time Out, and berry-flavoured vodkas and fruit coolers are all aimed at the female consumer.Award-winning journalist Ann Dowsett Johnston illuminates this startling trend; dissects the psychological, social and financial factors that have contributed to its rise; and explores its long-lasting impact on our society and individual lives, including her own. In the bestselling Drink, she interweaves in-depth research and interviews with leading researchers with the moving story of her own struggle with alcohol, as well as those of many other women, from age seventeen to seventy. The result is an unprecedented and bold inquiry that is both informative and shocking.
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- ISBN: 0062241796
- ISBN: 9780062241795
- Physical Description 305 pages
- Edition 1st ed.
- Publisher New York : HarperWave, [2013]
- Copyright ©2013
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses. |
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Table of Contents
Drink : The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Prologue | p. 1 | |
Part 1 | Singing Backwards | |
1 | The Monkey Diary: The beginning of the end | p. 7 |
2 | Out of Africa: A family unravels | p. 23 |
3 | You've Come the Wrong Way, Baby: Closing the gender gap on risky drinking | p. 39 |
4 | The Future Is Pink: The alcohol industry takes aim at the female consumer | p. 57 |
5 | The Age of Vulnerability: The consequences of drinking young | p. 73 |
6 | Binge: The campus drinking culture | p. 87 |
Part 2 | On the Edge of the Big Lonely | |
7 | Searching for the Off Button: Drinking to forget, drinking to numb | p. 107 |
8 | Self-Medication: Mood disorders and alcohol: A seductive combination | p. 125 |
9 | Romancing the Glass: A slim stem of liquid swagger | p. 141 |
10 | The Modern Woman's Steroid: Popping the cork on mother's little helper | p. 159 |
11 | The Last Taboo: Drinking and pregnancy | p. 173 |
12 | The Daughters' Stories: Growing up with an alcoholic mother | p. 187 |
Part 3 | Healing | |
13 | In Which Everything Changes: Getting sober, staying sober | p. 205 |
14 | Breaking the Trauma Cycle: The mother-and-child reunion | p. 221 |
15 | Something in the Water: Shaping a strong public health strategy | p. 233 |
16 | Wrestling with the God Thing: Spirituality and sobriety | p. 245 |
17 | Stigma: A call to action | p. 263 |
18 | Becoming Whole: In which I recover my self | p. 275 |
Acknowledgments | p. 285 | |
Notes | p. 289 |