Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

By: Holly Glenn Whitaker

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Synopsis: We live in a world obsessed with drinking. We drink at work events, lunches, book clubs and weddings. Yet no one ever questions alcohol's ubiquity. In fact, the only thing ever questions is why people don't drink. It is a qualifier for belonging. As a society, we are obsessed with health and wellness, yet we uphold alcohol as some sort of magic elixir. It is anything but. When Holly Whitaker started to look for a way to recover, the support systems she found for recovery where archaic and patriarchal. Urging drinkers towards a newfound humility is great if you're a man, but if you're a woman and not in a position to renounce privileges you never had, a whole other approach is needed. She embarked on a journey that led not only to her own sobriety, but revealed the insidious role alcohol plays in our society and in the lives of women in particular. What's more, she could not ignore the ways that alcohol companies were targeting women, just as the tobacco industry had successfully done generations before. Honest, witty and trenchant, Quit Like a Woman is at once a ground-breaking look at drinking culture, a call to arms, and a celebration of learning how to claim everything life has to offer.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781526612267
Related ISBNs:: 9781526612243
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Publishing
Date of Addition:: 01/09/20
Copyrighted By:: Holly Glenn Whitaker, 2
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Self-Help, Biographies and Memoirs, Health, Mind and Body, Humor
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.