Woman's World / Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930

400 Pages·1991·24.056 MB·English

by  Ian R. Tyrrell

Woman's World
Woman's Empire
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Woman's World
Woman's Empire
The Woman's
Christian Temperance Union
in International
Perspective, 1880-1930
Ian Tyrrell
The University of North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill and London
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© 1991 The University of North Carolina Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tyrrell, Ian R.
Woman's world/Woman's empire : the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union in international perspective, 1800—1930 / by Ian Tyrrell,
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8078-1950-6 (alk. paper)
1. Woman's Christian Temperance Union—History. 2. Temperance—
United States—Societies, etc.—History. 3. Reformers—United
States—Biography. 4. Feminists—United States—Biography.
I. Title.
HV5227.T97 1991
322.4'4'0973—dc20 90-43246
THIS BOOK WAS DIGITALLY PRINTED. CIP
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To Jessica Alice and Ellen Jane Victoria,
women of the twenty-first century
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Contents
Preface xi
Abbreviations xv
1
Introduction 1
2
Origins of Temperance Internationalism 11
3
The World's WCTU:
Testing the Limits of Internationalism 35
4
Bands of Ribbon White around the World:
Patterns of International Support 62
5
In Dark Lands:
Temperance Missionaries and Cultural Imperialism 81
6
Sisters, Mothers, and Brother-Hearted Men:
The Family Ideology of the World's WCTU 114
7
Alcohol and Empire 146
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viii
Contents
8
Peace as a Way of Life 170
9
A Fatal Mistake?:
The Contest for Social Purity 191
10
Women, Suffrage, and Equality 221
11
Women and Equality:
The Socialist Alternative 242
12
Prohibition and the Perils of Cultural Adaptation 255
Epilogue:
Divergent Meanings of the World's WCTU 285
Appendix 291
Notes 295
Index 365
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Illustrations
Frances Willard 21
Lady Henry Somerset 32
The Polyglot Petition 42
A group of delegates at the fourth convention of the
World's WCTU, Toronto, 1897 46
General Officers of the World's WCTU, c. 1896 60
The first six WCTU round-the-world missionaries 86
Jessie Ackermann on the gospel trail, in outback Australia 94
Ecumenicism of the World's WCTU 99
Mary Willard, Frances Willard, and Anna Gordon 126
Pandita Ramabai, with her daughter Manorama 142
"Our Armenians," 1896 144
Elizabeth Nicholls 229
The vote as an extension of domesticity 233
" 'Wet' and 'Dry' Map of the World" 257
Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle 271
An Australian view of prohibition 279
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