Alcohol, gender, and culture /
Contributors show how in countries across Europe, alcohol plays a significant role in cultural, religious and social identities, and how drinking practices can provide an analytical tool with which to approach different socio-cultural groups.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1992.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0203200284 9780203200285 9780203031803 0203031806 1134883307 9781134883301 1280331062 9781280331060 9786610331062 6610331065 0203307488 9780203307489 9780415086677 0415086671 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : alcohol commensality, identity transformations and transcendence / Dimitra Gefou-Madianou
- Female entertainers in Egypt : drinking and gender roles / Karin van Nieuwkerk
- Uses of alcohol among women : games of resistance, power and pleasure / Eleni Papagaroufali
- Drinking on masculinity : alcohol and gender in Andalusia / Henk Driessen
- Wine : life's blood and spiritual essence in a Greek Orthodox convent / A. Marina Iossifides
- Wine and men in Alsace, France / Isabelle Bianquis-Gasser
- Exclusion and unity, retsina and sweet wine : commensality and gender in a Greek agrotown / Dimitra Gefou-Madianou
- 'I can't drink beer, I've just drunk water' : alcohol, bodily substance and commensality among Hungarian Rom / Michael Stewart
- Drinking and masculinity in everyday Swedish culture / Gunilla Bjerén
- No fishing without drinking : the construction of social identity in rural Ireland / Adrian Peace.