Reforming Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reforming Japan write by Elizabeth Dorn Lublin. This book was released on 2010. Reforming Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1902 members of the Japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) submitted a petition to the National Diet to abolish the custom of rewarding good deeds and patriotic service with the bestowal of sake cups. Alcohol production and consumption, its members argued, harmed individuals, endangered public welfare, and wasted vital resources. The sake cup petition was only one initiative in a wide-ranging program to reform public and private behaviour in Japan. Between 1886 and 1912, the WCTU launched campaigns to eliminate prostitution, eradicate drinking and smoking, spread Christianity, and improve the lives of women. As Elizabeth Dorn Lublin shows, members did not passively accept and propagate government policy but felt a duty to shape it by defining social problems and influencing opinion. Certain their beliefs and reforms were essential to Japan's advancement, members couched their calls for change in the rhetorical language of national progress. Ultimately, the WCTU's activism belies received notions of women's public involvement and political engagement in Meiji Japan. This fascinating study of women bound by God, home, and country will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese History, religious studies, and gender studies.
Let Something Good be Said
Let Something Good be Said - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Let Something Good be Said write by Frances Elizabeth Willard. This book was released on 2007. Let Something Good be Said available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The definitive collection of speeches and writings of one of America's most important social reformers Thought to be the most famous woman in America at the time of her death, Frances E. Willard was best known for leading America's largest women's organization (the Woman's Christian Temperance Union), which shaped both domestic and international opinion on major political, economic, and social reform issues. Including Willard's representative speeches and pub-lished writings on everything from temperance and women's rights to the new labor movement and Christian socialism, "Let Something Good Be Said" is the first volume to collect the messages that inspired a generation of women to activism.
In League Against King Alcohol
In League Against King Alcohol - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In League Against King Alcohol write by Thomas J. Lappas. This book was released on 2020-02-13. In League Against King Alcohol available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many Americans are familiar with the real, but repeatedly stereotyped problem of alcohol abuse in Indian country. Most know about the Prohibition Era and reformers who promoted passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, among them the members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. But few people are aware of how American Indian women joined forces with the WCTU to press for positive change in their communities, a critical chapter of American cultural history explored in depth for the first time in In League Against King Alcohol. Drawing on the WCTU’s national records as well as state and regional organizational newspaper accounts and official state histories, historian Thomas John Lappas unearths the story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Indian country. His work reveals how Native American women in the organization embraced a type of social, economic, and political progress that their white counterparts supported and recognized—while maintaining distinctly Native elements of sovereignty, self-determination, and cultural preservation. They asserted their identities as Indigenous women, albeit as Christian and progressive Indigenous women. At the same time, through their mutual participation, white WCTU members formed conceptions about Native people that they subsequently brought to bear on state and local Indian policy pertaining to alcohol, but also on education, citizenship, voting rights, and land use and ownership. Lappas’s work places Native women at the center of the temperance story, showing how they used a women’s national reform organization to move their own goals and objectives forward. Subtly but significantly, they altered the welfare and status of American Indian communities in the early twentieth century.
Women Torch-bearers
Women Torch-bearers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Torch-bearers write by Elizabeth Putnam Gordon. This book was released on 1924. Women Torch-bearers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Woman and Temperance
Woman and Temperance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Woman and Temperance write by Ruth Birgitta Anderson Bordin. This book was released on 1990. Woman and Temperance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.
