Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century - Brossura

Fletcher, Holly Berkley

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ISBN 10: 0415542774 ISBN 13: 9780415542777

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Riassunto

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 -- Fletcher 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.

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"Recommended." - D.M. Fahey, Choice

Contenuti:

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Self-Made Men: Temperance, Identity, and Authority in Antebellum America

Chapter Two: Temperance Counter-Cultures and the Coming of the Civil War

Chapter Three: "Let Patriots Join Hands:" The Civil War and the War on Alcohol

Chapter Four: Crusading Women: The Creation of a New Temperance Icon

Chapter Five: A "Knitting Together of Hearts:" The Crusader, the WCTU, and the Building of a Temperance Coalition

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0415542774
• ISBN 13: 9780415542777
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 202