"Through sunshine and shadow" :: the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, evangelicalism, and reform in Ontario, 1874-1930 /

"Using an extensive array of primary sources, including local Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) minute books and correspondence, Sharon Cook describes the origins, structures, strategies, and achievements of the Ontario WCTU in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She...

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1. Verfasser: Cook, Sharon A. (Sharon Anne), 1947-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1995.
Schriftenreihe:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion ; 19.
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Zusammenfassung:"Using an extensive array of primary sources, including local Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) minute books and correspondence, Sharon Cook describes the origins, structures, strategies, and achievements of the Ontario WCTU in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She discusses the importance of its positions on such issues as Social Purity, women's franchise, the appropriate role of single women, working women's rights, the treatment of female offenders, and the effect of the WCTU's youth work." "Tracing the empowerment of women in the WCTU to the union's evangelical roots, Cook argues that the views of the Ontario WCTU were grounded in a vision of society that based the development of a moral society on the family unit and its moral centre, the mother."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index.
ISBN:9780773565401
077356540X
1282857479
9781282857476
9786612857478
6612857471
ISSN:1181-7445 ;