Women, alcohol and femininity: a discourse analysis of women heavy drinkers' accounts.
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'.
Rolfe
Alison
A
University of Northampton, UK. alison.rolfe@northampton.ac.uk
Orford
Jim
J
Dalton
Sue
S
D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D000437:Alcoholism; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008875:Middle Aged; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013240:Stereotyping