Gender, Class, and Public Drinking in Britain During the First World War
Title | Gender, Class, and Public Drinking in Britain During the First World War |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 1994 |
Authors | Gutzke, David W. |
Journal | Histoire sociale |
Volume | 27 |
Issue | 54 |
Pagination | 367–391 |
Abstract | During World War I respectable upper working-class and lower middle-class women, who had shunned public drinking for almost a century, began patronizing the pub in unprecedented numbers. In threatening the pre-war gender status quo, they provoked intense opposition from authorities who seemed committed to a counterattack once the war ended. Attracting such women's custom was a major incentive for brewers espousing the reform of the public house, ensuring that a wartime trend became a post-war tradition. Yet, unreformed slum pubs, unregenerate regional subcultures, unco-operative magistrates, and unsympathetic feminists ail prevented the attainment of full equality in public drinking in the inter-war era. |
URL | https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/16578/15437 |
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