"the thrill or the unpredictability or the letting one's hair down...is really important, but comes with those risks...I think the whole point of femininity is that it's full of contradictions."

How does a night on the town change how feminine or masculine our behaviour is? Dr Emily Nicholls takes us through her research on how gender is performed through drinking and sobriety in British culture.

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Dr Emily Nicholls - Senior Lecturer in Sociology - https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/emily-nicholls

Emily’s Book Negotiating Femininities in the Neoliberal Night-Time Economy - https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319933078

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