Alcohol, Sex, and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. By A. Lynn Martin (New York: Palgrave, 2001. x plus 200pp.).
Perhaps because our own culture is so accustomed to associating alcohol with certain types of behavior--celebratory, violent, or sexual--I suspect that few readers of this book will be surprised by its thesis or its findings. Despite the fact that, according to Martin, no modem studies have analyzed the relationships between alcohol, sex and gender, we ...