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Citation

Heider C. Rhetor. Public Aff. 2005; 8(1): 85-107.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Michigan State University Press)

DOI

10.1353/rap.2005.0041

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Suffragists and temperance activists perceived a strong correlation between drinking and domestic violence. As Marilley notes, Frances Willard “pro-claimed that women needed the vote to protect themselves and their families against the threat of drunken men’s violence.” Barbara Leslie Epstein explains that temperance crusaders argued that “drunken men were violent, likely to beat their wives and perhaps children or other members of their families as well. Alcohol, they claimed, turned gentle fathers and husbands into brutes.” While Epstein questions the material frequency of physical abuse, she stresses that the alcohol issue “made it possible to dramatize the physical vulnerability of women in the family, their inability to protect themselves from abusive husbands.” As the Western Woman’s Journal reported, “the traffic in alcoholic beverages should be dealt with as a foe to health and happiness, a disturber of domestic tranquility, and a criminal dealing in a domestic poison.” The implied principle of self-determination grounds this appeal, as all individuals deserved the right to health and happiness.

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