{"product_id":"manhood-lost-9780801892561","title":"Manhood Lost","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEntering 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  Acknowledgments  Introduction  1 Volition  2 Manhood  3 Contentment  4 Seduction  5 Invasion  6 Resolution  Conclusion  Notes  Essays on Sources  Index","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405207773527,"sku":"9780801892561","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/manhood-lost-9780801892561","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}