Gender, Space, and Drunkenness: Liverpool's Licensed Premises, 1860–1914

Beckingham, David

doi:10.1080/00045608.2011.652850

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“…Related research has included both empirical, quantitative measures of the alcogenic environment and its relationship to alcohol-related harm, as well as a critique of such epistemological framing of alcohol as a medical issue (Jayne et al 2011b). Topics such as legislation and policy (Jayne, Valentine & Sarah L Holloway 2011b), the night-time economy (Demant & Landolt 2013), gentrification (Mathews & Picton 2014) and historical patterns of licensing (Beckingham 2012) have been key features of the research as well as those focussing on identity (Nayak 2003), drinking cultures (Jayne, Valentine & Gould 2012), lifestyle and the gendered nature of alcohol (Thurnell-Read 2013).…”

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Alcohol Risk Environments, Vulnerability, and Social Inequalities in Alcohol Consumption

Shortt

Rind²,

Pearce

et al. 2018

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Alcohol and alcohol related harm are key public health challenges. Research has shown that individual level factors, such as age and sex, are important predictors of alcohol consumption, but such factors provide only a partial account of the drivers of consumption. In this paper we argue that individual level factors interact with features of the 'risk environment' to increase the vulnerability of individuals to such environments. Features of the alcohol 'risk environment' include the density of alcohol premises in a neighbourhood. Previous research has shown that neighbourhoods with a higher density of alcohol outlets have higher levels of both alcohol consumption and alcohol related harm. There has however been a distinct lack of attention paid to the differential ways in which particular socio-demographic groups may be more vulnerable to such 'risk environments'. In this paper we address the risk environment through a primary focus on the local supply and availability of alcohol products (captured using a measure of outlet density) and the relationship with the harmful use of alcohol. Using responses to the Scottish Health Survey (2008-2011) we explore vulnerability through the interaction between individual level socioeconomic position, measured using household income, and environmental risk to assess differential social vulnerability to such environments. We report findings showing that those in the lowest income groups may be disproportionately affected by outlet density. This evidence suggests that risk environments may not affect us all equally and that there may be socially differentiated vulnerability to such environments.

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Alcohol Risk Environments, Vulnerability, and Social Inequalities in Alcohol Consumption

Shortt

Rind²,

Pearce

et al. 2018

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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“…Geographers and others have begun to theorize and empirically explore licensing as a powerful force in urban political geography (Beckingham, 2010(Beckingham, , 2012hubbard, 2013;hubbard, Matthews, & Scoular, 2009;Kneale, 1999Kneale, , 2001Valverde, 1997Valverde, , 2003. Much of this work is informed by a Foucauldian governmentality perspective.…”

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“…Fundamentally, these anxieties have to do with a concern that inebriation leads people to not self-govern in terms of sexual behavior, gender expression, and related norms. Beckingham (2012) examines the role of gender and related anxieties about prostitution in the licensing of pubs in Victorian and Edwardian Liverpool, and the production and consumption of urban space more broadly. he demonstrates that state authorities, responding in part to advocacy on the part of social reformers, used licensing to regulate female drinking and in an attempt to (re)inscribe pubs as masculine spaces.…”

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Sex, drink, and state anxieties: governance through the gay bar

Brown

Knopp

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…There is broad agreement that women made up a significant proportion of British pub patrons in this period but were rarely as common as men (Beckingham, 2012;Gutzke, 1984Gutzke, , 1994Gutzke, , 2013Langhamer, 2000;Moss, 2008Moss, , 2009Robinson, 2015). There were exceptions, of course.…”

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Good, homely, troublesome or improving? Historical geographies of drinking places, c. 1850–1950

Kneale

2021

Geography Compass

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This paper surveys historical geographies of drinking places designed for the consumption of alcohol between about 1850 and 1950, covering work published in English on sites in Europe, Russia, the Americas, and parts of Britain's empire. Five key aspects of drinking places are identified. The paper first considers them as significant social spaces associated with positive conceptions of both the public sphere and public space before exploring the ways in which drink became a spatial problem for contemporary observers, both in terms of their internal design and layout, and in their arrangements and concentrations in space. Histories and historical geographies of workers and patrons in these sites then suggest that the spatial problems associated with drink might also be classed, gendered, racialized, and sexualized. The last two sections of the paper review work on aspects of drinking places shared across many different social and geographical contexts: licensing and the provision of highly regulated 'improved' sites for the consumption of alcohol. Similarities across many different contexts may reflect common social patterns or the development of shared strategies for reform. The conclusion suggests a few areas that might be developed. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Gender, Space, and Drunkenness: Liverpool's Licensed Premises, 1860–1914

Cited by 14 publications

References 23 publications

Alcohol Risk Environments, Vulnerability, and Social Inequalities in Alcohol Consumption

Alcohol Risk Environments, Vulnerability, and Social Inequalities in Alcohol Consumption

Sex, drink, and state anxieties: governance through the gay bar

Good, homely, troublesome or improving? Historical geographies of drinking places, c. 1850–1950

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