The Drinking Curriculum
eBook - ePub

The Drinking Curriculum

A Cultural History of Childhood and Alcohol

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Drinking Curriculum

A Cultural History of Childhood and Alcohol

About this book

2024 CHOICE TOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE TITLE

A lively exploration into America's preoccupation with childhood innocence and its corruption

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, advertiseĀ­ments, 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 protecĀ­tionist 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.

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Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781531505240
9781531505233
eBook ISBN
9781531505257

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: Learning to Drink
  6. Lesson One: D is for Drunkard
  7. Lesson Two: No Pets, No Drunks, No Children
  8. Lesson Three: ā€œFriends Don’t Let Friends Drink and Driveā€
  9. Lesson Four: It’s Funny When Kids Drink
  10. Lesson Five: Mommy Needs a Cocktail
  11. Final Exam
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Notes
  14. Index

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