Moral norms in older Swedish women's drinking narratives. Enduring patterns and successively new features:

[摘要] AimsTo examine how the changes in women's relationship to alcohol during the 1960s appear in narratives of situated drinking occasions.DataNewly collected autobiographies written by women born between 1918 and 1951 are analysed using theories by William Labov on narrative construction and Kenneth Burke on the rhetoric of motives.ResultsThe historically restrictive attitude to women at all drinking is present in the oldest women's narratives, while the liberalisation of attitudes to alcohol that took place in the 1960s likewise marks the narratives told by the younger women, even though they when writing are of pension able age. With the writers’ diminishing age, the norms framing the narratives have changed, from sobriety among the oldest women to controlled moderation among the younger. And yet, the narratives also demonstrate a stable pattern of questioning women's drinking, although the focus has shifted from tasting alcohol at all to the state of becoming intoxicated.ConclusionsA controlling norm rema...

[学科分类] 生物化学/生物物理

[关键词] alcohol;public call for writing;auto-biographies;women;narrative analysis