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

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

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert

Paperback

Series: Gender Relations in the American Experience

Anthropology20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 080186870X
ISBN13: 9780801868702
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Aug 24 2001
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

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.

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