Domesticating Drink
Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940
Seiten
1999
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-5940-3 (ISBN)
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-5940-3 (ISBN)
The consumption of alcohol was one of the most divisive issues confronting America in the 19th and early-20th centuries. This is a study of the history of alcohol in America between 1870 and 1940. It argues that the debates surrounding prohibition also marked a divide along gender lines.
The sale and consumption of alcohol was one of the most divisive issues confronting America in the 19th and early-20th centuries. According to many historians, the period of its prohibition, from 1919 to 1933, marks the fault line between the cultures of Victorian and modern America. In this study, Murdock argues that the debates surrounding prohibition 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-related violence and abuse. As a result, women stood at the fore of the temperance and prohibition movements (Carrie Nation being the crusade's icon) and, as Murdock explains, would effectively use the fight against drunkenness as a route towards political empowerment and participation. At the same time, respectable women drank at home, in a pattern of moderation at odds with contemporaneous male alcohol abuse. During the 1920s, with federal prohibition a reality, many women began to assert their hard-won sense of freedom by becoming social drinkers in places other than the home.
By the 1930s, the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform was one of the most important repeal organizations in the country. Murdock's study of how this development took place is designed to broaden the reader's understanding of the social and cultural history of alcohol and the various issues that surround it.
The sale and consumption of alcohol was one of the most divisive issues confronting America in the 19th and early-20th centuries. According to many historians, the period of its prohibition, from 1919 to 1933, marks the fault line between the cultures of Victorian and modern America. In this study, Murdock argues that the debates surrounding prohibition 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-related violence and abuse. As a result, women stood at the fore of the temperance and prohibition movements (Carrie Nation being the crusade's icon) and, as Murdock explains, would effectively use the fight against drunkenness as a route towards political empowerment and participation. At the same time, respectable women drank at home, in a pattern of moderation at odds with contemporaneous male alcohol abuse. During the 1920s, with federal prohibition a reality, many women began to assert their hard-won sense of freedom by becoming social drinkers in places other than the home.
By the 1930s, the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform was one of the most important repeal organizations in the country. Murdock's study of how this development took place is designed to broaden the reader's understanding of the social and cultural history of alcohol and the various issues that surround it.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock is a lecturer in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr College.
List of Illustrations
List of Acronyms
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1.. Gender, Prohibition, Suffrage, and Power
2 Domestic Drink in Victorian America
3. Startling Changes in the Public Realm
4. Prohibition, Cocktails, Law Observance, and the American Home
5. Prohibition and Woman's Public Sphere in the 1920s
6. The Moral Authority of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform
7. The Domestication of Drink
Epilogue
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.3.1999 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Gender Relations in the American Experience |
| Zusatzinfo | 14 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 522 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8018-5940-9 / 0801859409 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-5940-3 / 9780801859403 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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