The Drinking Curriculum: A Cultural History of by Elizabeth Marshall PAPERBACK

The Drinking CurriculumA Cultural History of Childhood and Alcohol\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth Marshall\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9781531505240, 978-1531505240\nSynopsis\nA lively exploration into America's preoccupation with childhood innocence and its corruption\n 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 culturetemperance tracts, cartoons, film, advertisements, and public-service announcementsMarshall 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, .