{"product_id":"devil-of-the-domestic-sphere-temperance-gender-and-middle-class-ideology-1800-1860-paperback-softback-9780875806396","title":"Devil of the Domestic Sphere; Temperance, Gender, and Middle-class Ideology, 1800–1860 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780875806396","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDevil of the Domestic Sphere\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTemperance, Gender, and Middle-class Ideology, 1800–1860\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eScott C. Martin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780875806396\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 May 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin's argument is provocative and important, his documentation exhaustive. He challenges previous scholarship about American women before the Civil War by shifting the focus from anti-slavery to temperance and drink.\u003c\/p\u003e - David Fahey, Miami University, Ohio \u003cp\u003eExcellent, solid, and well argued.... Martin takes offense at the many ways in which the temperance movement demeaned and even endangered women, and is sensitive to subtle expressions of misogyny.\u003c\/p\u003e - Elaine Frantz Parsons, Duquesne University \u003cp\u003eA fascinating analysis. An original and needed contribution to the literature of nineteenyh-century female activism.\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal of Illinois History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrink, in the minds of antebellum temperance reformers, represented the threat of an increasingly urban, industrial world.\u003c\/b\u003e Contrasting the drunkards' lack of restraint with their own thrift and sobriety, these members of the emerging middle class lay claim to respectability, virtue, and moral leadership. As they sought to legitimate their own authority, reformers also employed temperance literature to propagate middle-class ideas about the nature of women and their role as guardians of the home.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStories of women as innocent victims and loving saviors filled temperance literature. Ministers, novelists, and journalists portrayed wives beaten by drunken husbands; poets and songwriters extolled mothers and sisters who rescued men from demon drink. Yet a strand of misogyny also ran through temperance ideology. Denunciation of women as causes of intemperance and snares for men, and celebration of women's victimization often coexisted with a more positive assessment of women's role in the emerging middle class. Unless a woman remained vigilant, she too might succumb to drink, and reformers had very little sympathy for such a fallen angel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Temperance Literature and Misogyny \u003cbr\u003e 1 Female Intemperance \u003cbr\u003e 2 Victims and Exemplars \u003cbr\u003e 3 The Suffering Woman \u003cbr\u003e 4 Female Moral Suasion \u003cbr\u003e 5 Toward Legislation \u003cbr\u003e 6 Protecting the Home \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Legacy of Middle-class Temperance Ideology \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Works Cited \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52584758968600,"sku":"9780875806396","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/devil-of-the-domestic-sphere-temperance-gender-and-middle-class-ideology-1800-1860-paperback-softback-9780875806396","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}