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Book SynopsisEntering a distinctively male space-the saloon-to rescue fathers, brothers, and sons, women at the same time began to enter another male bastion-politics-again justifying their transgression in terms of rescuing the nation's manhood.
Trade ReviewA lively and sophisticated intellectual history... Manhood Lost furnishes new evidence for the centrality of the drink debate to nineteenth-century culture. Journal of American History 2004 Manhood Lost deserves a wide readership among historians of gender, temperance, and the nineteenth-century United States. -- Scott C. Martin Journal of the Early Republic Parsons makes a convincing argument for a much closer connection between discourses of women's rights and temperance in the nineteenth century. -- Thomas Winter Journal of Social History 2004 A fresh perspective on the ways in which nineteenth-century participants in America's temperance debate understood the roles of men and women and the relationships between individuals and their environment. -- Michelle M. Morgan History of Education Quarterly 2004 Its findings will be embraced enthusiastically by scholars affiliated with the emergent field of alcohol and addiction studies. -- John W. Crowley American Historical Review 2004 A provocative, fascinating, and elegant book. -- David M. Fahey Historian 2006 Parsons offers a fresh perspective on one of the more turgid chapters in American history: the temperance movement of the 19th century. She identifies a pervasive genre-the so-called 'drunkard narrative'-and uses it to uncover strains in how contemporaries thought about free will, individual responsibility and sexual inversion. -- Jessica Warner Addiction 2004 An intriguing, well written, and thought-provoking study that deserves a wide audience among American cultural historians. -- Laura R. Prieto American Nineteenth Century History 2004
Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Volition 2 Manhood 3 Contentment 4 Seduction 5 Invasion 6 Resolution Conclusion Notes Essays on Sources Index
