Rosemary Elliot

Women and Smoking since 1890

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the issue of women and smoking in the twentieth century. Focusing on the gendered construction of smoking as a practice, Rosemary Elliot uese a variety of source material from popular magazines, films and medical discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780415511377
• ISBN-10: 0415511372
• Artikelnr.: 47232328

Autorenporträt

Dr. Rosemary Elliot is a researcher at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One The Lady Smoker
Chapter Two Cigarettes and supporting the war
Chapter Three Flappers and the changing face of femininity
Chapter Four Personal perspectives: smoking among women in Mass Observation and oral history
Chapter Five Smoking in war and peace
Chapter Six The construction of the health risks of smoking
Chapter Seven The feminisation of the cigarette
Chapter Eight From pregnant women to teenage girls: the shifting focus of smoking among women as a health issue
Conclusion