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>Poster:       "scott c. martin" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      Re: Gender, Drink, and Violence
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Scott.  just returned from vacation and catching up on email.  if you don't
know it, take a look at Elizabeth Pleck's Domestic Tyranny (Oxford, 1986?),
especially a chapter called "The Drunkard's Wife."
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>        I've not posted here before, but Scott Haine's inquiry about
>gender, drink, and violence interested me.  I'm in the research stage of a
>major project on women, gender, and temperance in the early
>national/antebellum United States.  I've been focusing on the popular
>culture of temperance so far (published tracts, sermons, addresses,
>almanacs, etc.), and it strikes me that notions of female victimization by
>male drunkards begin to solidify around 1830.
>The image of drunken husbands beating wives and children becomes a staple
>of descriptions of the drunkard's home, and shows up in many more places
>than before.  I'm still in the early stages of this, but is seems that this
>development -- the identification of female victimization as a central
>aspect of the liquor problem -- is linked to the articulation of gender
>roles and the emerging cult of domesticity during the first half of the
>19th century.  But this raises many questions:  how does female drinking
>fit in; what about class differences; how does this relate to larger
>discussions of male violence against women, and so on.  Anyone have any
>thoughts on this?  References to any particularly good sources, either
>primary or secondary, would also be appreciated.
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>        On another front, I'm planning a graduate seminar on alcohol and
>drug policy in US history for the Policy History program at Bowling Green,
>where I teach.  I'd be grateful for any suggestions for readings or syllabi
>of similar courses.  Thanks in advance.
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>Scott C. Martin                 |
>Assistant Professor, History    |
>Bowling Green State University  |
>Bowling Green, OH  44865        |
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