Women Drinking Out in Britain Since the Early Twentieth Century

Offers a way of conceptualising how women's drinking habits changed over more than a century in Britain.

List of contents

Introduction
1. From the boozer to the improved public house
2. Women, war and drinking
3. Selling women
4. Bikinis, boots and booze
5. The more things change, the more (some) things remain the same
6. Drinking habits of their own
7. Wooing women
8. New money, new ideas, new women
9. A youth subculture of drinking
10. Yesterday's reforms, today's bingeing
11. Folk devils and moral panics: Youth and women across a century of censure
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

David W. Gutzke is Professor of Modern British History at Missouri State University

Summary

Offers a way of conceptualising how women’s drinking habits changed over more than a century in Britain. -- .

Product details

• Authors: David Gutzke, David W Gutzke, David W. Gutzke
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2013
• EAN: 9780719052644
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-5264-4
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Studies in Popular Culture; Studies in Popular Culture (Ha; Studies in Popular Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Women, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, 21st Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls