Through an examination of the two icons of the nineteenth century American temperance movement -- the self-made man and the crusading woman -- Fletcher demonstrates the evolving meaning and context of temperance and gender.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2007-12-27
Language: English
Number of Pages: 202
Edition: 1
Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
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