In the late 1800s, both First-wave feminism and the women-lead Temperance Movement were gaining steam in North America. But why did so many more women join the temperance movement than the suffrage cause? Eva tells Emma about the different strategies both movements used to recruit members, focusing in on the ways christian morality and fears over family safety helped (white, Protestant) women conceive of themselves as political participants.
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Reading List:
Sophie Lewis, Shebeen Queens
Elizabeth K. Churchill, article in The Women’s Journal
Mother Stewart, Memories of the crusade; a thrilling account of the great uprising of the women of Ohio in 1873, against the liquor crime
Criminal, ep 73 Carry A. Nation
Suzanne M. Marilley, Frances Willard and the Feminism of Fear
The Canadian Encyclopedia, Temperance Movement in Canada
Frances Willard, Hints and Helps in our Temperance Work
Jack S. Blocker, Jr., Separate Paths: Suffragists and the Women's Temperance Crusade
OSU, Woman's Crusade of 1873-74
Cover Image: "A woman's liquor raid - how the ladies of Fredericktown, O. abolished the traffic of ardent spirits in their town" from The National Police Gazette, Nov. 8 1879