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Well-Tempered Women : Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric /
"In this Illustrated Study, Carol Mattingly examines the rhetoric of the temperance movement, the largest political movement of women in the nineteenth century." "Tapping previously unexplored sources, Mattingly uncovers new voices and different perspectives, thus greatly expanding ou...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
1998.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : silenced voices
- Part One. From pedestal to pen and podium
- Woman's rights in woman's wrongs : temperance women at mid-century
- Patriotic reformers : "Called by the spirit of the Lord to lead the women of the world"
- Woman-tempered rhetoric : public presentation and the WCTU
- Part Two. Controversy surrounding the cause
- Dissension and division : racial tension and the WCTU
- Red-nosed angels and the corseted crusade : newspaper accounts of nineteenth-century temperance reformers
- Part Three. Fictional accounts of feminine concerns
- "The feelings of the romantic and fashionable" : women's issues in temperance fiction
- "Wine drinkers and heartless profligates" : water drops from popular novelists
- Conclusion : women of the century.