Reviews
Murdock's contributions to the social history of alcohol are many... Perhaps most significantly, she reveals the crucial role that respectable female drinkers played in both achieving and dismantling the Eighteenth Amendment.
Murdock writes the history of prohibition and repeal, and also of American drinking habits, as women's history. She argues that women's drinking had a positive effect: it domesticated the male use of alcohol.
By using the changing perceptions of alcohol and gender as the focus, Murdock deftly illustrates the social and political events that impacted American culture.
Murdock deftly interweaves the histories of temperance, drinking customs and women's rights. Her insightful and fluently-written synthesis will enlighten the general reader and compel the attention of specialists in a variety of disciplines.
Book Details
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
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