The functions of alcohol in traditional Europe -- Variations over time and place -- Alcohol, sex, and gender -- Sources and method -- Women and Alcohol -- Abstinent and temperate women -- Drinking women -- The functions of alcohol -- Playing with statistics -- Explaining it away -- Sex and Alcohol -- The symbolism of alcohol -- Conception and pregnancy -- Variations on Lot and Terence -- Weddings -- Alehouses, Taverns, and Prostitutes -- The sociability of drinking -- The devil's church -- Prostitutes -- Female keepers -- The clientele -- Sexual Encounters -- Foreplay -- Seduction and rape -- In alehouses and taverns -- Promiscuity and impotence -- Unruly Women and Violent Men -- The unruly woman in literature -- The unruly woman in 'life' -- Drinking men -- Alcohol and violence -- Husbands and Wives -- Good fellows and shrewish wives -- The economic cost of drinking -- Adultery -- Domestic violence -- Domestic harmony.
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