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This Social History of Bingo takes the long view on presumptions that bingo is a game rooted in the commercialization of gambling in the 1960s. It rebuffs the notion that in the 1960s commercial gambling entrepreneurs targeted women who had never previously gambled; enticing them with a new form of gambling. This work investigates whether a tradition of playing games of chance existed amongst women, and seeks to establish whether this included gambling amongst working class women, who would nowadays make up the majority of players of bingo. The nature and influence of bingo on British culture,…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This Social History of Bingo takes the long view on
presumptions that bingo is a game rooted in the
commercialization of gambling in the 1960s. It
rebuffs the notion that in the 1960s commercial
gambling entrepreneurs targeted women who had never
previously gambled; enticing them with a new form of
gambling. This work investigates whether a tradition
of playing games of chance existed amongst women, and
seeks to establish whether this included gambling
amongst working class women, who would nowadays make
up the majority of players of bingo. The nature and
influence of bingo on British culture,
links between bingo and criminality, the move of
bingo-specific language into wider use and the
potential of bingo to cause moral panics are all
examined in a book that applies scholarship to a
leisure pursuit that has long been treated as a
something of a joke by middle-class society.
Autorenporträt
Carolyn Downs is currently leading the first UK study of the
relationship between Gambling and Debt and a study investigating
whether online social networking is changing the attitudes of
young people towards gambling. She maintains an interest in
history, publishing regularly on 18th century trade and
radicalism and the history of gambling.