Domesticating Drink Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940

Name: Domesticating Drink Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940
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ISBN: 9780801868702

ISBN-10: 080186870X

ISBN-13: 9780801868702

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Authors: Catherine Gilbert Murdock

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The period of prohibition, from 1919 to 1933, marks the fault line between the cultures of Victorian and modern America. In Domesticating Drink, Murdock argues that the debates surrounding alcohol also marked a divide along gender lines. For much of early American history, men generally did the drinking, and women and children were frequently the victims of alcohol-associated violence and abuse. As a result, women stood at the fore of the temperance and prohibition movements and, as Murdock explains, effectively used the fight against drunkenness as a route toward political empowerment and participation. At the same time, respectable women drank at home, in a pattern of moderation at odds…

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List price: $22.00
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 6/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Catherine Gilbert Murdock was born in Charleston, South Carolina and grew up on a small farm in Litchfield, Connecticut. She attended Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania. She writes young adult books including Princess Ben, Dairy Queen, The Off Season, and Front and Center.



List of Illustrations


List of Acronyms


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Gender, Prohibition, Suffrage, and Power



Domestic Drinking in Victorian America



Startling Changes in the Public Realm



Prohibition, Cocktails, Law Observance, and the American Home



Prohibition and Woman's Public Sphere in the 1920s



The Moral Authority of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform



The Domestication of Drink


Epilogue


Notes


Essay on Sources


Index