American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition / Kenneth D. Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Kenneth D., Author.

Series:

American social experience series ; 33.

The American Social Experience ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women social reformers--United States--History.

Women social reformers.

Women--Political activity--United States--History.

Women.

Prohibition--United States--History.

Prohibition.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1933 Americans did something they had never done before: they voted to repeal an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Eighteenth Amendment, which for 13 years had prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, was nullified by the passage of another amendment, the Twenty-First. Many factors helped create this remarkable turn of events. One factor that was essential, Kenneth D. Rose here argues, was the presence of a large number of well-organized women promoting repeal. Even more remarkable than the appearance of these women on the political scene was the approach they took to the politics of repeal. Intriguingly, the arguments employed by repeal women and by prohibition women were often mirror images of each other, even though the women on the two sides of the issue pursued diametrically opposed political agendas. Rose contends that a distinguishing feature of the women's repeal movement was an argument for home protection, a social feminist ideology that women repealists shared with the prohibitionist women of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The book surveys the women's movement to repeal national prohibition and places it within the contexts of women's temperance activity, women's political activity during the 1920s, and the campaign for repeal. While recent years have seen much-needed attention devoted to the recovery of women's history, conservative women have too often been overlooked, deliberately ignored, or written off as unworthy of scrutiny. With American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition, Kenneth Rose fleshes out a crucial chapter in the history of American women and culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. American Women and the Prohibition Movement

CHAPTER TWO. Women's Politics, Home Protection, and the Morality of Prohibition in the 1920s

CHAPTER THREE. Women and the Repeal Issue: Three Visions

CHAPTER FOUR. The Campaign

CHAPTER FIVE. Nonpartisanship, National Politics, and the Momentum for Repeal

CHAPTER SIX. Aftermath and Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-203) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-7669-8

OCLC:

782878062