Liza Donnelly's cover illustration for "Make Mine a Double"

As I said in the previous post, drinking is never uncomplicated for women, especially for those of us who came of age during a time when we were encouraged to chip away at cultural taboos one ice cube at a time (a phrase I’ve adapted, with a curtsey, from a group calling itself Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails).

This is one of the reasons I knew that editing a collection on women and drinking—titled Make Mine a Double, and published this week by the University Press of New England—would be a good idea.

Women who came of age in the 50s, 60s, and early 70s were afraid of what would happen to us if we gave in to the seductions of liquor. Journalist and author Susan Campbell writes  “If I had been a…

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