DEVIL OF THE DOMESTIC SPHERE
Subtitle: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-class Ideology, 1800-1860
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: February 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780875803852
Subjects: Alcoholism; Social history; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Literary Criticism; Philosophy; USA; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; General
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.