Gender, Drink and Drugs

By: Maryon McDonald (Editor)

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Paperback | 14 June 1994 | Edition Number 1

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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. 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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"...offers interesting insights into issues of gender and substance use in a variety of cultural and historical settings." --Anthropology in Action

"Maryon McDonald has been successful in bringing together in one volume most vital and relevant issues pertaining to the areas of gender, drink and drugs. The volume offers an innovative approach, makes interesting reading, and provokes thought ... will have a large readership not only in the discipline of anthropology but also in allied disciplines." --Anthropos

"...broaden(s) our understanding of the cultural construction of gender as reflected in the behaviors and meanings associated with alcohol and drug use and abuse." --Medical Anthropology Quarterly

"vital and stimulating reading." --Self, Agency and Society

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