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Woman'S World/Woman'S Empire: The Woman'S Christian Temperance Union In International Perspective, 18801930,Used
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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 fortytwo 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 AngloAmerican 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 AngloAmerican culture that made it so difficult for the WCTU to export its vision of a womancentered 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 nondenominational 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.
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