Women drinking out in Britain since the early twentieth century / David W. Gutzke.

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

xvi, 312 pages : black and white illustrations, charts ; 24 cm.

Machine generated contents note: 1. From the late Victorian boozer to the interwar improved public house -- 2. Women, war and drinking -- 3. A tough sell: wooing women in the 1950s -- 60s -- 4. Bikinis, boots and booze -- 5. The more things change, the more (some) things remain the same -- 6. Drinking habits of their own -- 7. Men are from Mars, women from Venus: understanding the psychology of selling alcohol in the 1980s -- 90s -- 8. New money, new ideas, new women -- 9. A youth subculture of drinking -- 10. Yesterday's reforms, today's bingeing -- 11. Folk devils and moral panics: women and youth across a century of censure.

Includes bibliographical references and index.