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Article: Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940.(Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2001
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Domesticating Drink: Women, Men, and Alcohol in America, 1870-1940. By Catherine Gilbert Murdock (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 244 pp. $38.50).
Gender-related considerations, according to Catherine Gilbert Murdock, are critical to comprehending the war against alcohol in the United States from the Gilded Age to the New Deal era. Indeed, gender is the dominant consideration in this volume, especially in regard to the roles played by women in bringing about both National Prohibition and the domestication of drink in America. Throughout much of the nineteenth century, the author states, alcohol consumption and related problems of abuse ...