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The Drinking Curriculum: A Cultural History of Childhood and Alcohol 1st Edition

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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, advertise­ments, 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 protec­tionist 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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    1531505244
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1531505240
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Fordham University Press
  5. Publication date
    January 2, 2024
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    176 pages
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Elizabeth Marshall's The Drinking Curriculum offers up a wildly intoxicating and brilliantly persuasive tour of our culture's tales of childhood and boozing, innocence and loss. I know of no scholarly book that is at once so humorous, startling, and deeply important, ranging from comedy to angry denunciation, all presented to us in prose that rips into our minds – and hearts.---James R. Kincaid, author of Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting

A compelling case study of precisely how our culture’s insistence on childhood purity obscures the violence that maintaining the veneer of innocence requires. The Drinking Curriculum offers an incredibly rich set of observations that ask us to think about our assumptions around maturity, sovereignty, purity, and innocence in provocative new ways.---Anna Mae Duane, Editor of The Children's Table: Childhood Studies and the Humanities

Like the most epic of nights out, you will finish The Drinking Curriculum with new ideas, new ways of seeing old ideas, and a smile on your face. Beth has brought the bubbles: Živjeli – cheers! ― Libri & Liberi

About the Author

Elizabeth Marshall is an associate professor at Simon Fraser University, where she teaches courses on children’s literature, childhood, and popular culture. She is the author of Graphic Girlhoods: Visualizing Education and Violence (2018) and co-author with Leigh Gilmore of Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing (2019).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fordham University Press; 1st edition (January 2, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1531505244
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1531505240
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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Elizabeth A. Marshall is the author of The Drinking Curriculum: A Cultural History of Childhood and Alcohol, Graphic Girlhoods: Visualizing Education and Violence (2018) and co-author with Leigh Gilmore of Witnessing Girlhood (2019).

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L.K
5.0 out of 5 stars Sooooo insightful & educational - you must READ THIS BOOK!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2024
The author does an amazing job of showing us readers the unsightly manipulation of cultural norms and the power of marketing
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TMP - Boston
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating topic and treatment
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2024
A surprising, well researched, and frequently funny book on the American obsession with young people and alcohol.
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MSBEBE
5.0 out of 5 stars great read!
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2024
Great read. Love the images!
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