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Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)
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Elaine Frantz Parsons (Author)
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In fiction, drama, poems, and pamphlets, nineteenth-century reformers told the familiar tale of the decent young man who fell victim to demon rum: Robbed of his manhood by his first drink, he slid inevitably into an abyss of despair and depravity. In its discounting of the importance of free will, argues Elaine Frantz Parsons, this story led to increased emphasis on environmental influences as root causes of drunkenness, poverty, and moral corruption-thus inadvertently opening the door to state intervention in the form of Prohibition. Parsons also identifies the emergence of a complementary narrative of "female invasion"-womanhood as a moral force powerful enough to sway choice. As did many social reformers, women temperance advocates capitalized on notions of feminine virtue and domestic responsibilities to create a public role for themselves. Entering 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. 7 Halftones, black and white CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
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Elaine Frantz Parsons teaches American history at Duquesne University.
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- Contributor: Elaine Frantz Parsons
- Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN13: 9780801892561
- Number of Pages: 256
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x14mm
- Packaged Weight: 318
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Release Date: 2009-08-11
- Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Elaine Frantz Parsons teaches American history at Duquesne University.
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