Includes bibliographical references (leaves 320-415) Investigates female drinking patterns and how they impacted on women's lives in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in early modern England. Deals with female drinking as a site of contention between insubordinate women and the dominant paradigm of male expectations about drinking and drunkeness. Female drinking patterns integrated drinking and drunkeness into women's lives in ways that enhanced bonding with their female friends, even if it inconvenienced their husbands and male authorities. Drunken sociability empowered women.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/114827 |
Date | January 2002 |
Creators | Cast, Andrea Snowden. |
Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Relation | SUA |
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