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Manhood lost : fallen drunkards and redeeming women in the nineteenth-century United States / Elaine Frantz Parsons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parsons, Elaine Frantz, 1970- author.
- Series:
- New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
- New studies in American intellectual and cultural history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alcoholism--United States--History--19th century.
- Alcoholism.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages--United States--History--19th century.
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
- Sex role--United States--History--19th century.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Volition
- Manhood
- Contentment
- Seduction
- Invasion
- Resolution.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0169-X
- OCLC:
- 941695833
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