scholarly journals The Theatrics of Protest: Bessie Harrison Lee and Performing the Values of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 11-35
Author(s):  
Jenny Caligari
Keyword(s):  
Woman's Christian Temperance Union

scholarly journals Organization and Accomplishments of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, and Virginia

1908 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Mary E. Kuhl ◽  
Katharine Lent Stevenson ◽  
Frances W. Graham ◽  
Elizabeth Preston Anderson ◽  
Frances H. Ensign ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North Dakota ◽  
Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Channeling Womanpower

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Dumenil
Keyword(s):  
Women Activists ◽  
White Women ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
American Red Cross ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Racial Uplift ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Woman's Christian Temperance Union ◽  
Progressive Reform ◽  
Young Women's Christian Association

This chapter examines women's voluntary associations' role in mobilization. It examining the Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense, the Young Women's Christian Association, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the National Association of Colored Women, and the American Red Cross, it analyzes the way in which women activists conjoined the war emergency to their own goals of staking their claim to full citizenship, and continuing their reform agendas begun in the Progressive reform era. As they did so, white women invoked “maternalism” and emphasized the instrumental role that women played in protecting the family. African American activists similarly focused on the centrality of women citizens, but did so in the specific context of racial uplift. Their engagement in meaningful war work encouraged them to view the war – over optimistically as it turned out – as an opportunity to achieve both long-standing reform goals and an enhanced role for women in public life.

Precedents

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-32
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Israels Perry
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Action ◽  
New York State ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
White House ◽  
Woman's Christian Temperance Union ◽  
State Constitutions ◽  
Political Work ◽  
Municipal Reform

The American woman suffrage movement inspired women to take actions unprecedented for their sex, such as marching in parades and picketing the White House. In addition, suffragists also engaged in new kinds of political action designed to persuade legislators—at the time all male—to remove from state constitutions the word “male” or “men” as descriptors of voters. New York City suffragists pioneered in such political work. They not only turned the tide in New York State but also provided a model that suffragists elsewhere followed. This chapter covers the contributions to this process made by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of New York; the settlement, labor, consumer, and municipal reform movements; and individual suffragists such as Harriot Stanton Blatch, Rosalie Gardiner Jones, Carrie Chapman Catt, Harriet Burton Laidlaw, and Mary Garrett Hay.

World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union

2010 ◽  
pp. 1665-1665
Author(s):  
Anthony Filipovitch ◽  
Samiul Hasan ◽  
Damien Rousseliere ◽  
Klodjan Seferaj ◽  
Sabine Campe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Woman's Christian Temperance Union

THE CREATION OF PUBLIC SPACES BY WOMEN IN THE EARLY MEIJI PERIOD AND THE TŌKYŌ FUJIN KYŌFŪKAI

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Patessio
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Woman's Christian Temperance Union ◽  
The Past ◽  
Meiji Period ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Japanese Male ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Do So

Other than a few remarkable exceptions, and because of their lack of social, educational, and political rights, women of the early Meiji period (1868–1890) have often been regarded as powerless actors in the formation and expansion of the bourgeoning Japanese public sphere. Following the research that feminist scholars have developed over the past twenty years on the redefinition of Jürgen Habermas' concepts of “public” and “private” in relation to Western women's lives, I would like to demonstrate how, even when lacking the possibility of changing their lives, some groups of Japanese women during the 1880s were nevertheless able to gather together, bring forth demands in public settings, and make public topics of discussion that had hither to been considered unworthy of public debate and pertaining only to the private lives of Japanese male citizens. In order to do so, I will take into consideration some of the activities organized by the women belonging to the Tōkyō Fujin Kyōfūkai, the Japanese branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.).

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