Gender and the American temperance movement of the nineteenth century
During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women. However, this transition of leadership masked the complexity and diversity of the temperance movement. Through an examination of the two icons of the movement -- the self-made man and the crusading woman -- this book demonstrates the evolving meaning and context of temperance and gender. Temperance becomes a story of how the debate on racial and gender equality became submerged in service to a corporate, political enterprise and how men's and women's identities and functions were reconfigured in relationship to each other and within this shifting political and cultural landscape
History
xii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780415963121, 9780203932575, 0415963125, 0203932579
159822008
Self-made men : temperance, identity, and authority in antebellum America
Temperance counter-cultures and the coming of the Civil War
"Let patriots join hands" : the Civil War and the war on alcohol
Crusading women : the creation of a new temperance icon
A "knitting together of hearts" : the crusader, the WCTU, and the building of a temperance coalition