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Book SynopsisAs 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.
Trade ReviewMurdock's contributions to the social history of alcohol are many... Perhaps most significantly, she reveals the crucial role that respectable female drinkers played in both achieving and dismantling the Eighteenth Amendment. -- Madelon Powers American Historical Review Murdock writes the history of prohibition and repeal, and also of American drinking habits, as women's history. She argues that women's drinking had a positive effect: it domesticated the male use of alcohol. -- Lowell Edmunds Social History of Alcohol Review By using the changing perceptions of alcohol and gender as the focus, Murdock deftly illustrates the social and political events that impacted American culture. -- Allison M. Lampton American Studies International
Table of ContentsContents: 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
