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Drink : the intimate relationship between women and alcohol / Ann Dowsett Johnston.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443418799 (hc.) :
- ISBN: 144341879X (bound)
- ISBN: 9781443418805 (trade pbk.) :
- Physical Description: 305 pages ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins Canada, 2013.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The monkey diary : the beginning of the end -- Out of Africa : a family unravels -- You've come the wrong way, baby : closing the gender gap on risky drinking -- The future is pink : the alcohol industry takes aim at the female consumer -- The age of vulnerability : the consequences of drinking young -- Binge : the campus drinking culture -- Searching for the off button : drinking to forget, drinking to numb -- Self-medication : mood disorders and alcohol : a seductive combination -- Romancing the glass : a slim stem of liquid swagger -- The modern woman's steroid : popping the cork on mother's little helper -- The last taboo : drinking and pregnancy -- The daughter's stories : growing up with an alcoholic mother -- In which everything changes : getting sober, staying sober -- Breaking the trauma cycle : the mother-and-child reunion -- Something in the water : shaping a strong public health strategy -- Wrestling with the God thing : spirituality and sobriety -- Stigma : a call to action -- Becoming whole : in which I recover my self. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Riverton Branch | 362.292 JOH (Text) | 31511001014561 | Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Salt Spring Island Public Library | 362.29 JOH (Text) | 33123009303174 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Sechelt Public Library | 362.292082 DOWS (Text) | 33260000291477 | Nonfiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Tatla Lake Branch | 362.292082 DOW (Text) | 33923005413996 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- HARPERCOLL
What is behind the rise in alcohol consumption and abuse among women in recent years?
While the feminist revolution has allowed women to close the gender gap professionally and educationally, it has also witnessed a disturbing rise in equality in more troubling areas of life. In most of the developed world, the rates of binge drinking among women have skyrocketed in the past decade. DUIs, âdrunkorexiaâ and health conditions connected to alcohol abuse are all on the rise, especially among younger womena problem exacerbated by the alcohol industry itself. Battling for womenâs dollars and leisure time, corporations have developed marketing strategies and products targeted exclusively to women, including Girlsâ Night Out, MommyJuice and Mommyâs Time Out wines, berry-flavoured vodkas and fruit coolers.
Award-winning journalist Ann Dowsett Johnston illuminates this startling epidemic, 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 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 aged seventeen to seventy. The result is an unprecedented and bold inquiry that is both informative and shocking.
