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Author Fletcher, Holly Berkley

Title Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (202 pages)
Series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 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
Summary 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, polit
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Subject Temperance.
Social sciences.
Philosophy.
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
Temperance
Social Sciences
Philosophy
social sciences.
philosophy.
Women -- Suffrage.
Sex role.
Men.
Gender identity.
Philosophy.
Social sciences.
Temperance.
United States.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203932575
0203932579
1281102024
9781281102027