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Books on: temperance women

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Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric

Book by Carol Mattingly; Southern Illinois University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Alcoholism In Literature, Temperance In Literature, Temperance--United States--History--19th Century, Woman's Christian Temperance Union--Language, Women Orators--United States--History--19th Century, Women Orators--United States--Language, Women Social Reformers--United States--History--19th Century, Women Social Reformers--United States--Language

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...conditions somewhat for some women, most were still vulnerable...intemperate. Women temperance speakers at mid-century...presented as protection for women and children victims...Many believed that temperance, equal rights, and...they believed that the temperance issue would most effectively...
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Water Drops from Women Writers: A Temperance Reader

Book by Carol Mattingly; Southern Illinois University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Alcoholics--Family Relationships--Fiction, Alcoholics--Fiction, Alcoholics--Rehabilitation--Fiction, American Fiction--19th Century, American Fiction--Women Authors, Drinking Of Alcoholic Beverages--Fiction, Temperance--Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and legal roadblocks. Temperance fiction written by nineteenth-century women both reinforces and...developed around such work. Temperance fiction is often formulaic...and sale of liquor. Women formed and joined temperance...single organization for temperance women, the Womans Christian...
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Woman's World/Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930

Book by Ian Tyrrell; University of North Carolina Press, 1991

Subjects:

Feminists--United States--Biography, Reformers--United States--Biography, Temperance--United States--Societies, Etc--History, Woman's Christian Temperance Union--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...organizations focus from temperance alone to a broader emphasis...organization. A society run by women offered different emotional...was, like many other temperance women, a Templar before...emotional commitment of women one to another. The...Still, international temperance clearly did not begin...
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Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880-1920

Book by Richard F. Hamm; University of North Carolina Press, 1995

Subjects:

Liquor Laws--United States--History, Prohibition--United States--History, Temperance--United States--History, United States--Constitution--18th Amendment--History

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several hundred women entered the balcony boxes to listen to the afterdinner...various reasons. Three of the most prominent temperance lawyers were women: J. Ellen Foster called "Our Temperance Portia" by Mother Eliza Stewart , Ada M. Bittenbender...
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The New Temperance: The American Obsession with Sin and Vice

Book by David Wagner; Westview Press, 1997

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Behavior Modification--United States, Conservatism--United States, Political Correctness--United States, Temperance--United States, United States--Moral Conditions

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...46 Wobblies I.W.W. , 20 , 169 Women Against Pornography WAP , 154 , 156 , 182 n36 Women and temperance, 23 , 31 , 101 , 125 - 126 , 143 , 180...n68 , 190 n8 , 204 n2 Womens Christian Temperance Union WCTU , 18 , 20 , 22 , 24 , 28...

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Journal Articles on: temperance women

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Water Drops from Women Writers: A Temperance Reader

Journal article by Alisse Theodore; Argumentation and Advocacy, Vol. 39, 2002

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Water Drops from Women Writers: A Temperance Reader (Book)

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...more broadly. Many of the temperance essays included in the collection...their cause. Water Drops from Women Writers features nineteen...Although all of the stories prize temperance, the strategies advocated...in the domestic sphere and woman suffrage. Mattingly organizes...three primary themes in womens temperance fiction" and that, despite...
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"Hearts Uplifted and Minds Refreshed"': the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Production of Pure Culture in the United States, 1880-1930

Journal article by Alison M. Parker; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 11, 1999

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Women--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...depth in Alison M. Parker , Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform, and Pro-Censorship Activism...Barbara L. Epstein, The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America (Middletown...
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"No Whisky Amazons in the Tents of Israel": American Jews and the Gilded Age Temperance Movement

Journal article by Marni Davis; American Jewish History, Vol. 94, 2008

Subjects:

American Jews--Alcohol use, American Jews--Membership, American Jews--Political activity, Jewish history, Jewish women--Membership, Jewish women--Political activity, Jews, American--Alcohol use, Jews, American--Membership, Jews, American--Political activity, Jews--History, Temperance movement--Demographic aspects, Temperance movement--History, Woman's Christian Temperance Union--History, Women, Jewish--Membership, Women, Jewish--Political activity

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...image of the Jewish woman, whom he regarded...opposite of the temperance crusader: a politically...referred to the women of the temperance...Three of these women were Christian...The fourth woman, and the only...bored) until the temperance activist asked...presented Jewish women as uninterested in joining the temperance movement. Indeed, "Woman Number Four" offered...
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Sowing Seeds in an Untilled Field: Temperance and Race, Indeterminacy and Recovery in Frances E. W. Harper's Sowing and Reaping

Journal article by Doveanna S. Fulton; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 24, 2007

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African American authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American authors--Works, African American writers--Criticism and interpretation, African American writers--Works, Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins--Criticism and interpretation, Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins--Works, Race discrimination--Portrayals, Sowing and Reaping (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...active engagement in the temperance cause. Mary Goughs...women on suffrage and temperance, is the novels most...prohibition. "I want women to possess power as...want every Christian woman as she passes by a grog...declaration locates women decisively at the threshold...for contemporaneous temperance organizations, especially...
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Well-tempered Women: Nineteenth-century Temperance Rhetoric

Journal article by Kay J. Carr; Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 93, 2000

Collections: History, Entire Library

Well-tempered Women: Nineteenth-century Temperance Rhetoric by Kay J. Carr Well...Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric. By Carol Mattingly...mention of the Womens Christian Temperance Union to well-educated Americans...

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Magazine Articles on: temperance women

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The City on the Hill: Temperance, Race, and Class in Turn-of-the-Century Pasadena

Magazine article by Michael E. James; California History, Vol. 80, Winter 2001

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Cities and towns--Social policy, Pasadena, California--History, Race relations, Social class--California, Social classes--California, Temperance--California, Urban policy

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...excellent analysis of why women were so heavily involved...crusade. The Pasadena temperance movement, however, is...of their actions in the temperance literature. See Ruth Bordin, Women and Temperance (Philadelphia: Temple...
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Group Pressed for Women's Rights, Vote

Magazine article by Elaine de Vries; Anglican Journal, Vol. 125, April 1999

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Christian life & ethics, History, Social conditions, Women, Women's Christian Temperance Union, Women's organizations

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...of the Womans Christian Temperance Union: protection of the...1897, more than 21,000 women were members in the Dominion...child could join the Loyal Temperance Legion. A Young Womans Christian Temperance Union was established for...
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Women and Public Drinking, 1890-1920

Magazine article by Madelon Powers; History Today, Vol. 45, February 1995

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Bars, saloons, etc.--History, Drinking of alcoholic beverages--History, United States history--1865-1921, Women--Alcohol use

Collections: History, Entire Library

...never caused problems for women. Rather, it is to say...unappreciated and ignored by temperance advocates in the progressive...tolerate and even welcome women into the bar itself...era. The profusion of temperance literature portraying...obscure the fact that some women found public drinking...
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Are Women Morally Superior to Men?

Magazine article by Katha Pollitt; The Nation, Vol. 255, December 28, 1992

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Women in public life--Analysis, Women--Laws, regulations and rules

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...the community, or even other women--not husbands or lovers...his own. And no doubt many women, quietly smoldering at theft...mother and the "relational" woman are a kinder, gentler, leftish...nineteenth century, too, some women tried to turn the ideology...reformers, abolitionists, temperance advocates, settlement workers...
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For Home and Country: Women's Institutes in Ontario

Magazine article by Louise Carbert; Women and Environments, Spring 1996

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Agriculture, Canada, Farming, History, Ontario Canada, Organizations, Rural areas, Women, Women's Institute, Womens Institute-Canada

Collections: History, Entire Library

...marked a rite of passage for women in rural Canada. New brides...according to WI lore, lonely women out on the prairie pined for...such as the National Council of Women or the Womens Christian Temperance Union. But neither did it move...

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Newspaper Articles on: temperance women

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Does Our Society Really Need to Return to the Age of Temperance?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 23, 2009

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Supermarkets--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...belonged to the Good Templars temperance association. There was another...and the Free Kirk promoted temperance. There was also a Catholic...life for far more people. Women, and especially girls, now...that Scotland needs a new Temperance Movement may seem ridiculously...
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Marines Fight Battle of the Bottle: Corps Commandant Issues Call for Temperance, Discipline

Newspaper article by Rowan Scarborough; The Washington Times, August 20, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...fight battle of the bottle: Corps commandant issues call for temperance, discipline by Rowan Scarborough Gen. Charles Krulak, Marine...an anti-political-correctness movement, arguing against women in land combat and against any relaxation in the law against...
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a[euro][approximately]Advancement' of Women Wins Writer's Praise

Newspaper article; The Chronicle (Toowoomba, Australia), February 11, 2011

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Australians

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Conservative reply was given, woman has entrenched so much on...social and political reform woman is now playing a leading and...known as the Womens Christian Temperance Union, the Eleventh Annual...controlled exclusively by women, has done magnificent work in the cause for temperance. Then, as regards the political...
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Woman: Beyond the Adamic Myth; (Lecture Delivered during the First Luzviminda D. Puno Memorial Lecture, on December 6, 2007, at the University of the East, Manila.)

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 8, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...none but Jesus heard me! And aint I a woman? "That little man in black there, he says women cant have as much rights as men cause Christ wasnt a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where...9262 (the Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Law), as a justifying circumstance wherein the accused woman cannot be held criminally or civilly...
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Tragedy at City's Arsenal; Explosion Kills 21 Women

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 17, 2008

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Explosions--Casualties, Teenage girls--Casualties

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...at Citys Arsenal; Explosion Kills 21 Women. Byline: Brian Bergin, SPECIAL TO THE...and his carelessness would kill 21 young women. In coming and going, Brown would have...stands the statue of a grieving young woman, whose demurely folded hands andsadly...and the interrupted lives of the dead women. * Brian Bergin is writing a book on...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: temperance women

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Temperance Movements

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...33). Among the outstanding women temperance workers of the period were Frances...Nation . Among the effects of temperance agitation were the stimulation...government regulation. Unlike later temperance movements, such as Alcoholics...
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Woman Suffrage

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

WOMAN SUFFRAGE the right of women to vote. Throughout...usually also advocates of temperance and of the abolition...American men but not to the women who had helped win it...vote. The National Woman Suffrage Association...were the first to grant woman suffrage; in France, women voted in the first election...
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Anthony, Susan Brownell

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement...agitated for equal pay for women teachers, for coeducation...When the Sons of Temperance refused to admit women...the Daughters of Temperance. At a temperance meeting in 1851 she...without also giving it to women, and many woman-suffrage sympathizers...
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Willard, Frances Elizabeth

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...ELIZABETH 1839 98, American temperance leader and reformer, b...College for Ladies and dean of women at Northwestern Univ. After...1874) the Womans Christian Temperance Union and in 1879 became its...life to the organization of women for the prohibition of alcoholic...causes, especially that of woman suffrage. See her autobiography...
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Abolitionists

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...emancipation of the slaves as well as temperance, foreign missions, and womens...000 members, including many women. Although abolitionists united...followers also argued that women be allowed to participate fully...Lutz, Crusade for Freedom: Women in the Antislavery Movement...

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