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Women, Alcohol and Femininity

A Discourse Analysis of Women Heavy Drinkers' Accounts

Alison Rolfe

University of Northampton, UK, alison.rolfe{at}northampton.ac.uk

Jim Orford

University of Birmingham, UK

Sue Dalton

Office for National Statistics, Titchfield, UK

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'.

Key Words: alcohol • femininity • stigma • women's drinking

Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 14, No. 2, 326-335 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1359105308100217
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