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Author Murdock, Catherine Gilbert.

Title Domesticating drink : women, men, and alcohol in America, 1870-1940 / Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Published Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Gender relations in the American experience
Gender relations in the American experience.
Contents 1. Gender, Prohibition, Suffrage, and Power -- 2. Domestic Drinking 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-215) and index
Subject Drinking customs -- United States.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- United States -- History.
Men -- Alcohol use -- United States -- History.
Women social reformers -- United States -- History.
Women -- Alcohol use -- United States -- History.
LC no. 98024285
ISBN 0801859409