Joanna: I am very excited to be talking with you today: thanks so much for your time. I came across your work when reading an academic paper that you published in 1990 on the criminalization of pregnant women who drink alcohol or take proscribed drugs, so it resonated with my current research on female cultures of drinking (my ‘working title’ is Wine: History, Memoir, and the Muse). I then learned that you graduated from Cornell University and the New York University School o

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