Title Well-tempered women : nineteenth-century temperance rhetoric / Carol Mattingly

Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 213 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction : silenced voices -- Part One. From pedestal to pen and podium -- Woman's rights in woman's wrongs : temperance women at mid-century -- Patriotic reformers : "Called by the spirit of the Lord to lead the women of the world" -- Woman-tempered rhetoric : public presentation and the WCTU -- Part Two. Controversy surrounding the cause -- Dissension and division : racial tension and the WCTU -- Red-nosed angels and the corseted crusade : newspaper accounts of nineteenth-century temperance reformers -- Part Three. Fictional accounts of feminine concerns -- "The feelings of the romantic and fashionable" : women's issues in temperance fiction -- "Wine drinkers and heartless profligates" : water drops from popular novelists -- Conclusion : women of the century Summary "In this Illustrated Study, Carol Mattingly examines the rhetoric of the temperance movement, the largest political movement of women in the nineteenth century." "Tapping previously unexplored sources, Mattingly uncovers new voices and different perspectives, thus greatly expanding our knowledge of temperance women in particular and of nineteenth-century women and women's rhetoric in general. Her scope is broad: she looks at temperance fiction, newspaper accounts of meetings and speeches, autobiographical and biographical accounts, and minutes of national and state temperance meetings." "Examining the choices these women made in their efforts to better conditions for women, Mattingly looks first at oral rhetoric among nineteenth-century temperance women. She examines the early temperance speeches of activists like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who later chose to concentrate their effort in the suffrage organizations, and those who continued to work on behalf of women primarily through the temperance topic, such as Amelia Bloomer and Clarina Howard Nichols. Finally, she examines the rhetoric of members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union - the largest organization of women in the nineteenth century."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- Language SUBJECT Woman's Christian Temperance Union fast Subject Temperance -- United States -- History -- 19th century Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- 19th century Women social reformers -- United States -- Language Women orators -- United States -- History -- 19th century Women orators -- United States -- Language Temperance in literature. Alcoholism in literature. English language -- United States -- Rhetoric SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. English language -- Rhetoric Alcoholism in literature Language and languages Temperance Temperance in literature Women orators Women orators -- Language Women social reformers Women social reformers -- Language Drankbestrijding. Vrouwen. Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Retorica. United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 98016297 ISBN 0585106835 9780585106830 9780809390311 0809390310

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