Domesticating Drink: - Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940

"By using the changing perceptions of alcohol and gender as the focus, Murdock deftly illustrates the social and political events that impacted American culture." -- "American Studies International"

List 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

About the author

Catherine Gilbert Murdock is a lecturer in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr College.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Gilbert Murdock
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.2002
• EAN: 9780801868702
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-6870-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Gender Relations in the Americ; Gender Relations in the American Experience; Gender Relations in the Americ
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)