{"product_id":"9781584657590","title":"Make Mine a Double: Why Women Like Us Like to Drink (Or Not)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMake Mine a Double pours together a collection of witty, intelligent, and provocative pieces about women and their beverages of choice. Edited by humorist and academic mahatma Gina Barreca, the twenty-eight original essays here come from a diverse community of voices from ages twenty-one to seventy-nine, including such luminaries as Fay Weldon, Wendy Liebman, Amy Bloom, Liza Donnelly, Nicole Hollander, Beth Jones, Dawn Lundy Martin, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEqual parts paean to spirits, an open discussion of drinking (or not drinking), and a call to feminists everywhere to say “salut,” Make Mine a Double shimmers with thoughtfulness, humor, and self-examination. These tales of women’s complex relationships with alcohol are the story of every woman’s effort to find her independence and sense of belonging, be it at a college party, a high-powered cocktail party, or on a stool at the neighborhood watering hole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarreca and the writers have agreed that all their profits from the book will be donated to Windham Hospital’s “Gina’s Friends” fund, which aids women in need.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of New England","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030932308208,"sku":"9781584657590","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781584657590_p0.jpg?v=1763805920","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781584657590","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}