| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion,
1181-7445 ;
19
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McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion ; 19.
1181-7445
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Illustrations""; ""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""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C"" |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- History.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union. |
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History. |
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union. |
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Union universelle des femmes chrétiennes pour la tempérance. |
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Union universelle des femmes chrétiennes pour la tempérance -- Histoire. |
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Women's rights -- Ontario -- History.
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Women's rights. |
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Ontario. |
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Women's rights -- Ontario -- Religious aspects -- History.
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Evangelicalism -- Ontario -- History.
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Evangelicalism. |
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Temperance -- Ontario -- History.
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Temperance. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cook, Sharon A. (Sharon Anne), 1947- Through sunshine and shadow. Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1995 0773513051 (DLC) 96112742 (OCoLC)35298736 |
| ISBN |
9780773565401 (electronic book) |
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077356540X (electronic book) |
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0773513051 |
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9780773513051 |
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