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Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. "Domesticating Drink: Women and Alcohol in Prohibition America, 1870-1940," American Civilization Program, University of Pennsylvania, May 1995.
“Domesticating Drink” through alcohol explores women’s politics and private lives between the Civil War and World War Two. Temperance, prohibition, and woman suffrage campaigns were often led by groups such as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. By the late 1920s, however, women’s repeal organizations usurped the maternal rhetoric and political savvy of the WCTU. In private life, alcohol defined the separate spheres of Victorian America; women’s moderate consumption contrasted with the abusive drinking of male saloon culture. In the 1910s and 1920s, public heterosocial drinking played an integral role in dismantling the gendered attributes of alcohol that had made prohibition possible.
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