As alcohol continues to spark debate about behaviors, attitudes, and gender roles, Domesticating Drink provides valuable historical context and important lessons for understanding and responding to the evolving use, and abuse, of drink. Murdock’s study of how this development took place broadens our understanding of the social and cultural history of alcohol and the various issues that surround it. This final installment in the Dairy Queen trilogy kicks off with Wisconsin junior D.J. At the same time, respectable women drank at home, in a pattern of moderation at odds with contemporaneous male alcohol abuse.ĭuring the 1920s, with federal prohibition a reality, many women began to assert their hard won sense of freedom by becoming social drinkers in places other than the home. Front and Center by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (Ages 12 & up). As a result, women stood at the fore of the temperance and prohibition movements and, as Murdock explains, effectively used the fight against drunkenness as a route toward political empowerment and participation. For much of early American history, men generally did the drinking, and women and children were frequently the victims of alcohol associated violence and abuse. In Domesticating Drink, Murdock argues that the debates surrounding alcohol also marked a divide along gender lines. The period of prohibition, from 1919 to 1933, marks the fault line between the cultures of Victorian and modern America. Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940
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