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

Author
Cook, Sharon A. (Sharon Anne), 1947- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1995.
Description
xi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Origins: "Not to Buy Drink, Sell or Give Alcoholic Liquors While I Live"
    • 3. The Ontario Structure: "A Mint of Wealth for Us Somewhere"
    • 4. Ideas: "For Time and Eternity"
    • 5. Strategies: "The Darkness of This World"
    • 6. The Young Woman's Christian Temperance Union: "The Work of Winning Souls"
    • 7. Epilogue
    • 1916-30: "For Though It Be Frayed and Dingy and Worn on a Shabby Dress ..."
    • Appendix: Membership and Union Totals.
    ISBN
    • 0773513051 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780773513051 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    96112742
    OCLC
    35298736
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