>---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- >Sender: Alcohol and Temperance History Group <[log in to unmask]> >Poster: "scott c. martin" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Gender, Drink, and Violence >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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." > > 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. > > 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. >--------------------------------- >Scott C. Martin | >Assistant Professor, History | >Bowling Green State University | >Bowling Green, OH 44865 | >419/372-8201 office | >419/687-8368 home | >419/372-7208 fax | >--------------------------------- > >