Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-class Ideology, 1800-1860 by Scott Martin

Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-class Ideology, 1800-1860

Scott Martin

216 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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Drink, in the minds of antebellum temperance reformers, represented the threat of an increasingly urban, industrial world. Contrasting the drunkards’ lack of restraint with their own thrift and sobriety, these members of the emerging middle class ...

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