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Category : Alcoholism
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Union Signal and World's White Ribbon
Author: Do Everything
Author: Frances Elizabeth WillardPublisher:
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Woman's World/Woman's Empire
Author: Ian TyrrellPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469620804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Frances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women's emancipation throughout the world. Based in the United States, the WCTU rapidly became an international organization, with affiliates in forty-two countries. Ian Tyrrell tells the extraordinary story of how a handful of women sought to change the mores of the world -- not only by abolishing alcohol but also by promoting peace and attacking prostitution, poverty, and male control of democratic political structures. In describing the work of Mary Leavitt, Jessie Ackermann, and other temperance crusaders on the international scene, Tyrrell identifies the tensions generated by conflict between the WCTU's universalist agenda and its own version of an ideologically and religiously based form of cultural imperialism. The union embraced an international and occasionally ecumenical vision that included a critique of Western materialism and imperialism. But, at the same time, its mission inevitably promoted Anglo-American cultural practices and Protestant evangelical beliefs deemed morally superior by the WCTU. Tyrrell also considers, from a comparative perspective, the peculiar links between feminism, social reform, and evangelical religion in Anglo-American culture that made it so difficult for the WCTU to export its vision of a woman-centered mission to other cultures. Even in other Western states, forging links between feminism and religiously based temperance reform was made virtually impossible by religious, class, and cultural barriers. Thus, the WCTU ultimately failed in its efforts to achieve a sober and pure world, although its members significantly shaped the values of those countries in which it excercised strong influence. As and urgently needed history of the first largescale worldwide women's organization and non-denominational evangelical institution, Woman's World / Woman's Empire will be a valuable resource to scholars in the fields of women's studies, religion, history, and alcohol and temperance studies.
Report Made to the First Convention of the World's Women's Christian Temperance Union, Held in Boston, U. S. A., Nov. 10-19, 1891
Author: World's Woman's Christian Temperance UnionPublisher:
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The World's Congress of Representative Women
Author: May Wright SewallPublisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
The World's Congress of Representative Women
Author: The World's Congress of Representative Women: Dedication. Announcement. List of illustrations. Preface. The Intrduction Preparations. Education. Literature and the dramatic art. Science and religion. Charity, philanthropy, and religion. Moral and social reform. The civil and political status of women.- v.2. Civil law and government. Industries and occupations. The solidarity of human interests. Education and literaure. Religion. Industrial, social, and moral reform. Orders, civil and political reform
Author: May Wright SewallPublisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A New Gospel for Women
Author: Kristin Kobes Du MezPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190205644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This title tells the story of Katharine Bushnell (1855-1946), a remarkable figure in the history of Anglo-American social reform, women's rights, and feminist theology. A book of history, biography, and historical theology, 'A New Gospel for Women' demonstrates both the promises and perils of Christian feminism - particularly the challenges confronting those today who wish to construct a sexual ethic that is both Christian and feminist, and one suited to the realities of the modern world.
Report of the ... Biennial Convention and Minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Author: World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union. ConventionPublisher:
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Drinking
Author: Susanna BarrowsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520334051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
