Domesticating Drink

Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6870-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

Reihe: Gender Relations in the American Experience

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

The period of prohibition, from 1919 to 1933, marks the fault line between the cultures of Victorian and modern America. In Domesticating Drink, Murdock argues that the debates surrounding alcohol also marked a divide along gender lines. For much of early American history, men generally did the drinking, and women and children were frequently the victims of alcohol-associated violence and abuse. As a result, women stood at the fore of the temperance and prohibition movements and, as Murdock explains, effectively used the fight against drunkenness as a route toward political empowerment and participation. At the same time, respectable women drank at home, in a pattern of moderation at odds with contemporaneous male alcohol abuse.

During the 1920s, with federal prohibition a reality, many women began to assert their hard-won sense of freedom by becoming social drinkers in places other than the home. Murdock's study of how this development took place broadens our understanding of the social and cultural history of alcohol and the various issues that surround it. As alcohol continues to spark debate about behaviors, attitudes, and gender roles, Domesticating Drink provides valuable historical context and important lessons for understanding and responding to the evolving use, and abuse, of drink.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert
Catherine Gilbert Murdock is a lecturer in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr College.