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Through Sunshine and Shadow
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Evangelicalism, and Reform in Ontario, 1874-1930
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Sharon Anne Cook
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English
Published/Copyright:
1995
About this book
Using an extensive array of primary sources, including local WCTU minute books and correspondence, 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. Cook traces the empowerment of women in the WCTU to the union's evangelical roots, arguing 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.
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Contributor: Sharon Anne Cook
Sharon Anne Cook is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Ottawa.
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"A well-researched study of an organization that was a key voluntary association for many women in Ontario communities, 'Through Sunshine and Shadow' is a delight to read." Phyllis Airhart, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto.
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Origins: “Not to Buy, Sell or Give Alcoholic Liquors While I Live”
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The Ontario Structure: “A Mint of Wealth for Us Somewhere”
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Ideas: “For Time and Eternity”
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Strategies: “The Darkness of This World”
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The Young Woman’s Christian Temperance Union: ’’The Work of Winning Souls"
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Epilogue – 1916–30: “For Though It Be Frayed and Dingy and Worn on a Shabby Dress ...”
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Appendix: Membership and Union Totals
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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