Title: DEVIL OF THE DOMESTIC SPHERE
Subtitle: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-class Ideology, 1800-1860
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.
Subjects: History, Temperance, Suffrage, Sex role, Social conditions, Moral conditions, Women, Feminism, Geschlechterrolle, Abstinenzbewegung, Frau, Soziale Situation, Feminismus, Women, suffrage, United states, social conditions, United states, moral conditions
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century