Gender, Drink and Drugs
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
ISBN-10
0854968679
ISBN-13
9780854968671
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Berg Publishers
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 14th, 1994
Print length
282 Pages
Weight
348 grams
Dimensions
13.80 x 21.50 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Drug & substance abuse: social aspectsGender studies, gender groupsAnthropology
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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.
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.
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