Title Gender and the American temperance movement of the nineteenth century / Holly Berkley Fletcher

Published New York : Routledge, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 189 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in American popular history and culture American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm)) Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-185) and index Notes Print version record Subject Gender identity -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Men -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Sex role -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Temperance -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- 19th century. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 0203932579 (electronic bk.) 9780203932575 (electronic bk.)

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