Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric

by Carol Mattingly

Book Overview

In this richly illustrated study, Carol Mattingly examines the rhetoric of the temperance movement, the largest political movement of women in the nineteenth century.

Tapping previously unexplored sources, Mattingly uncovers new voices and different perspectives, thus greatly expanding our knowledge of temperance women in particular and of nineteenth-century women and women's rhetoric in general. Her scope is broad: she looks at temperance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809323850
• ISBN13: 9780809323852
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"