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Title:

Alcohol, gender, and culture / edited by Dimitra Gefou-Madianou.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

1992

Description:

x, 190 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Drinking customs--Europe--Cross-cultural studies.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Cross-cultural studies.
Women--Europe--Cross-cultural studies.--Cross-cultural studies.
Men--Europe--Cross-cultural studies.--Cross-cultural studies.

Other Authors:

Gefou-Madianou, Dimitra

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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 Bjer©♭n -- No fishing without drinking : the construction of social identity in rural Ireland / Adrian Peace.

Series:

European Association of Social Anthropologists

ISBN:

9780415086677
0415086671

OCLC:

(OCoLC)26986192

LCCN:

93111657

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)