Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-203) and index.
Contents
Introduction : silenced voices -- Part One. From pedestal to pen and podium -- Woman's rights in woman's wrongs : temperance women at mid-century -- Patriotic reformers : "Called by the spirit of the Lord to lead the women of the world" -- Woman-tempered rhetoric : public presentation and the WCTU -- Part Two. Controversy surrounding the cause -- Dissension and division : racial tension and the WCTU -- Red-nosed angels and the corseted crusade : newspaper accounts of nineteenth-century temperance reformers -- Part Three. Fictional accounts of feminine concerns -- "The feelings of the romantic and fashionable" : women's issues in temperance fiction -- "Wine drinkers and heartless profligates" : water drops from popular novelists -- Conclusion : women of the century.
