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Pleasure and poison: the meanings and practices of alcohol use in women's everyday lives

Within Australia, research on women and alcohol has been predominantly focussed on either large scale surveys of women’s consumption or on alcohol problems studies within treatment populations. Such research mainly draws upon the biomedical understandings of the body and the disease model of alcoholism. In contrast, this study examines the meanings and practices of alcohol use within the social contexts of women’s everyday lives. Alcohol is viewed as a part of life rather than as an excess or problem.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/245114
CreatorsBanwell, Catherine L.
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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