Domesticating drink : women, men, and alcohol in America, 1870-1940
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Domesticating drink : women, men, and alcohol in America, 1870-1940
(Gender relations in the American experience)
Johns Hopkins University Press, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780801859403
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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.
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: pbk ISBN 9780801868702
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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 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. Murdock's study of how this development took place broadens our understanding of the social and cultural history of alcohol and the various issues that surround it.
As alcohol continues to spark debate about behaviors, attitudes, and gender roles, Domesticating Drink provides valuable historical context and important lessons for understanding and responding to the evolving use, and abuse, of drink.
Table of Contents
Contents: 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
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