Title "Through sunshine and shadow" : the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, evangelicalism, and reform in Ontario, 1874-1930 / Sharon Anne Cook

Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) : illustrations Series McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion, 1181-7445 ; 19 McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion ; 19. 1181-7445 Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Origins: Not to Buy Drink, Sell or Give Alcoholic Liquors While I Live -- 3 The Ontario Structure: A Mint of Wealth for Us Somewhere -- 4 Ideas: For Time and Eternity -- 5 Strategies: The Darkness of This World -- 6 The Young Woman's Christian Temperance Union: The Work of Winning Souls -- 7 Epilogue � 1916�30: For Though It Be Frayed and Dingy and Worn on a Shabby Dress ... -- Appendix: Membership and Union Totals -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C De -- f -- g -- h -- i -- k -- l -- m -- n -- o -- p -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- y Summary "Using an extensive array of primary sources, including local Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) minute books and correspondence, Sharon Cook describes the origins, structures, strategies, and achievements of the Ontario WCTU in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She discusses the importance of its positions on such issues as Social Purity, women's franchise, the appropriate role of single women, working women's rights, the treatment of female offenders, and the effect of the WCTU's youth work." "Tracing the empowerment of women in the WCTU to the union's evangelical roots, Cook argues that the views of the Ontario WCTU were grounded in a vision of society that based the development of a moral society on the family unit and its moral centre, the mother."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- History SUBJECT Woman's Christian Temperance Union fast Subject Women's rights -- Ontario -- History Women's rights -- Ontario -- Religious aspects -- History Evangelicalism -- Ontario -- History Temperance -- Ontario -- History Women's rights -- History -- Religious aspects SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory. RELIGION -- Religion, Politics & State. Evangelicalism Temperance Women's rights Women's rights -- Religious aspects Ontario Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773565401 077356540X 1282857479 9781282857476 9786612857478 6612857471

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