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The drinking curriculum : a cultural history of childhood and alcohol / Elizabeth A. Marshall.

Marshall, Elizabeth, 1968- (author.).

Summary:

"In The Drinking Curriculum, Elizabeth Marshall brings the taboo topic of alcohol and childhood into the limelight. Marshall coins the term 'the drinking curriculum' to describe how a paradoxical set of cultural lessons about childhood are fueled by adult anxieties and preoccupations. By analyzing popular and widely accessible texts in visual culture--temperance tracts, cartoons, film, advertiseƯments, and public-service announcements--Marshall demonstrates how youth are targets of mixed messages about intoxication. Those messages range from the overtly violent to the humorous, the moralistic to the profane. Offering a critical and, at times, irreverent analysis of dominant protecƯtionist paradigms that sanctify childhood as implicitly innocent, The Drinking Curriculum centers the graphic narratives our culture uses to teach about alcohol, the roots of these pictorial tales in the nineteenth century, and the discursive hangover we nurse into the twenty-first"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781531505240
ISBN: 1531505244
Physical Description: 135 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: learning to drink -- Lesson one: D is for drunkard -- Lesson two: No pets, no drunks, no children -- Lesson three: "Friends don't let friends drink and drive" -- Lesson four: It's funny when kids drink -- Lesson five: Mommy needs a cocktail -- Final exam.