Women, Alcohol and Femininity
- 1 March 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Health Psychology
- Vol. 14 (2), 326-335
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105308100217
Abstract
Qualitative interviews were conducted with 24 women who were heavy drinkers, as part of a larger, longitudinal study of heavy drinking in the West Midlands of England. Critical discourse analysis was used to analyse the interviews, and resulted in the identification of two main discursive constructions: drink as self-medication, and drink as pleasure and leisure. However, women need to resist and negotiate stigmatizing subject positions of the `woman drinker' in order both to justify their drinking and to protect their moral status as `good women'.Keywords
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