Woman's World/Woman's Empire - by Ian Tyrrell (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Frances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women's emancipation throughout the world.
- About the Author: Ian Tyrrell is Scientia Professor of History at the University of New South Wales.
- 400 Pages
- History, United States
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About the Book
Woman's World/Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930Book Synopsis
Frances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women's emancipation throughout the world. Based in the United States, the WCTU rapidly became an international organization, with affiliates in forty-two countries. Ian Tyrrell tells the extraordinary story of how a handful of women sought to change the mores of the world -- not only by abolishing alcohol but also by promoting peace and attacking prostitution, poverty, and male control of democratic political structures.In describing the work of Mary Leavitt, Jessie Ackermann, and other temperance crusaders on the international scene, Tyrrell identifies the tensions generated by conflict between the WCTU's universalist agenda and its own version of an ideologically and religiously based form of cultural imperialism. The union embraced an international and occasionally ecumenical vision that included a critique of Western materialism and imperialism. But, at the same time, its mission inevitably promoted Anglo-American cultural practices and Protestant evangelical beliefs deemed morally superior by the WCTU.
Tyrrell also considers, from a comparative perspective, the peculiar links between feminism, social reform, and evangelical religion in Anglo-American culture that made it so difficult for the WCTU to export its vision of a woman-centered mission to other cultures. Even in other Western states, forging links between feminism and religiously based temperance reform was made virtually impossible by religious, class, and cultural barriers. Thus, the WCTU ultimately failed in its efforts to achieve a sober and pure world, although its members significantly shaped the values of those countries in which it excercised strong influence.
As and urgently needed history of the first largescale worldwide women's organization and non-denominational evangelical institution, Woman's World / Woman's Empire will be a valuable resource to scholars in the fields of women's studies, religion, history, and alcohol and temperance studies.
About the Author
Ian Tyrrell is Scientia Professor of History at the University of New South Wales. His previous books include Sobering Up: From Temperance to Prohibition in Antebellum America, 1800-1860.Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .89 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.35 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 400
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Theme: 20th Century
Format: Paperback
Author: Ian Tyrrell
Language: English
Street Date: August 9, 2010
TCIN: 89037465
UPC: 9780807871966
Item Number (DPCI): 247-13-9168
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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