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Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Elaine Frantz Parsons
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Paperback. 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. Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 381.
In fiction, drama, poems, and pamphlets, nineteenth-century reformers told the familiar tale of the decent young man who fell victim to demon rum: Robbed of his manhood by his first drink, he slid inevitably into an abyss of despair and depravity. In its discounting of the importance of free will, argues Elaine Frantz Parsons, this story led to increased emphasis on environmental influences as root causes of drunkenness, poverty, and moral corruption-thus inadvertently opening the door to state intervention in the form of Prohibition. Parsons also identifies the emergence of a complementary narrative of "female invasion"-womanhood as a moral force powerful enough to sway choice. As did many social reformers, women temperance advocates capitalized on notions of feminine virtue and domestic responsibilities to create a public role for themselves. 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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801892561
SKU
V9780801892561
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About Elaine Frantz Parsons
Elaine Frantz Parsons teaches American history at Duquesne University.
Reviews for Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States
A lively and sophisticated intellectual history... Manhood Lost furnishes new evidence for the centrality of the drink debate to nineteenth-century culture. Journal of American History 2004 Manhood Lost deserves a wide readership among historians of gender, temperance, and the nineteenth-century United States.
Scott C. Martin Journal of the Early Republic Parsons makes a convincing argument for a much closer connection between discourses of women's rights and temperance in the nineteenth century.
Thomas Winter Journal of Social History 2004 A fresh perspective on the ways in which nineteenth-century participants in America's temperance debate understood the roles of men and women and the relationships between individuals and their environment.
Michelle M. Morgan History of Education Quarterly 2004 Its findings will be embraced enthusiastically by scholars affiliated with the emergent field of alcohol and addiction studies.
John W. Crowley American Historical Review 2004 A provocative, fascinating, and elegant book.
David M. Fahey Historian 2006 Parsons offers a fresh perspective on one of the more turgid chapters in American history: the temperance movement of the 19th century. She identifies a pervasive genre-the so-called 'drunkard narrative'-and uses it to uncover strains in how contemporaries thought about free will, individual responsibility and sexual inversion.
Jessica Warner Addiction 2004 An intriguing, well written, and thought-provoking study that deserves a wide audience among American cultural historians.
Laura R. Prieto American Nineteenth Century History 2004
Scott C. Martin Journal of the Early Republic Parsons makes a convincing argument for a much closer connection between discourses of women's rights and temperance in the nineteenth century.
Thomas Winter Journal of Social History 2004 A fresh perspective on the ways in which nineteenth-century participants in America's temperance debate understood the roles of men and women and the relationships between individuals and their environment.
Michelle M. Morgan History of Education Quarterly 2004 Its findings will be embraced enthusiastically by scholars affiliated with the emergent field of alcohol and addiction studies.
John W. Crowley American Historical Review 2004 A provocative, fascinating, and elegant book.
David M. Fahey Historian 2006 Parsons offers a fresh perspective on one of the more turgid chapters in American history: the temperance movement of the 19th century. She identifies a pervasive genre-the so-called 'drunkard narrative'-and uses it to uncover strains in how contemporaries thought about free will, individual responsibility and sexual inversion.
Jessica Warner Addiction 2004 An intriguing, well written, and thought-provoking study that deserves a wide audience among American cultural historians.
Laura R. Prieto American Nineteenth Century History 2004