Drink：The Deadly Relationship Between Women and Alcohol

图书信息

作者	Ann Dowsett Johnston
出版社	Fourth Estate
ISBN	9780007503575
出版时间	2013-10-01
字数	43.9万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,励志自助,心灵

读书简介

The new face of risky drinking is female. The problem: a global epidemic of bingeing. The solution: a brave new approach to female recovery. This is my story, and it's particular. But I am not alone. Drinking problems challenge a growing number of women. The new reality: binge drinking is increasing among young adults – and women are largely responsible for this trend. Women’s buying power has been growing for decades, and their decision-making authority has grown as well. The alcohol industry, well aware of this reality, is now battling for women’s downtime – and their brand loyalty. Our relationship with alcohol is complex, and growing more so. This book will be essential reading for a huge number of women, a book that's breaks a major taboo. This will be a book for best friends to give one another, mothers to give daughters, sisters to give to each other – a book to read in hiding, when you know you're in trouble. This book will offer companionship for women of every age. It will answer a myriad tough questions. Intimate and startlingly honest, ‘Drink’ will be a book to change the lives of women of all ages – and those who love them. A book for anyone who thinks they have a problem, or knows someone who may have a problem, and wants to know more. Which means: just about everyone.

目录

Title Page

Copyright

Author’s Note

Dedication

Epigraph

By Charles Bukowski

Contents

Prologue

Part One: Singing Backwards

1. The Monkey Diary

The beginning of the end

2. Out of Africa

A family unravels

3. You’ve Come the Wrong Way, Baby

Closing the gender gap on risky drinking

4. The Future Is Pink

The alcohol industry takes aim at the female consumer

5. The Age of Vulnerability

The consequences of drinking young

6. Binge

The campus drinking culture

Part Two: On the Edge of the Big Lonely

7. Searching for the Off Button

Drinking to forget, drinking to numb

8. Self-Medication

Mood disorders and alcohol: A seductive combination

9. Romancing the Glass

A slim stem of liquid swagger

10. The Modern Woman’s Steroid

Popping the cork on mother’s little helper

11. The Last Taboo

Drinking and pregnancy

12. The Daughters’ Stories

Growing up with an alcoholic mother

Part Three: Healing

13. In Which Everything Changes

Getting sober, staying sober

14. Breaking the Trauma Cycle

The mother-and-child reunion

15. Something in the Water

Shaping a strong public health strategy

16. Wrestling with the God Thing

Spirituality and sobriety

17. Stigma

A call to action

18. Becoming Whole

In which I recover my self

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Publisher