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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Journal of the Sons of Temperance
Author: Manual of Busniess for Sons of Temperance
Author: Sons of Temperance of North AmericaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 356
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We Mean to Be Counted
Author: Elizabeth R. VaronPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807866083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded from public life. With this book, Elizabeth Varon effectively challenges such historical assumptions. Using a wide array of sources, she demonstrates that throughout the antebellum period, white Southern women of the slaveholding class were important actors in the public drama of politics. Through their voluntary associations, legislative petitions, presence at political meetings and rallies, and published appeals, Virginia's elite white women lent their support to such controversial reform enterprises as the temperance movement and the American Colonization Society, to the electoral campaigns of the Whig and Democratic Parties, to the literary defense of slavery, and to the causes of Unionism and secession. Against the backdrop of increasing sectional tension, Varon argues, these women struggled to fulfill a paradoxical mandate: to act both as partisans who boldly expressed their political views and as mediators who infused public life with the "feminine" virtues of compassion and harmony.
Drink and Disorder: Temperance Reform in Cincinnati, 1841-1874
Author: Jed DannenbaumPublisher:
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Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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The Son of Temperance
Author: Quarterly Journal of the Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance, State of Massachusetts
Author: Sons of Temperance of North America. Grand Division of MassachusettsPublisher:
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Journal of Proceedings of the National Division
Author: Sons of Temperance of North AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Thoughts for the Occasion, Fraternal and Benevolent
Author: Devil of the Domestic Sphere
Author: Scott C. MartinPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Drink, in the minds of antebellum temperance reformers, represented the threat of an increasingly urban, industrial world. Contrasting the drunkards' lack of restraint with their own thrift and sobriety, these members of the emerging middle class lay claim to respectability, virtue, and moral leadership. As they sought to legitimate their own authority, reformers also employed temperance literature to propagate middle-class ideas about the nature of women and their role as guardians of the home. Stories of women as innocent victims and loving saviors filled temperance literature. Ministers, novelists, and journalists portrayed wives beaten by drunken husbands; poets and songwriters extolled mothers and sisters who rescued men from demon drink. Yet a strand of misogyny also ran through temperance ideology. Denunciation of women as causes of intemperance and snares for men, and celebration of women's victimization often coexisted with a more positive assessment of women's role in the emerging middle class. Unless a woman remained vigilant, she too might succumb to drink, and reformers had very little sympathy for such a fallen angel. By examining the contradictory images of women employed by the antebellum temperance movement, Scott Martin reveals the reformers' commitment not only to social betterment but also to middle-class interests and a particular gender ideology. Martin explores the reasons why more men than women drank, the ways in which society dealt with women who neglected familial and social obligations to become drunkards, and the consequences of women's failure to eradicate male drunkenness.
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