| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-Class Ideology, 1800–1860. By Scott C. Martin. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008. xii, 204 pp. $38.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-385-2.)

Scott C. Martin's cultural study places gender and class ideology at the center of the antebellum temperance movement. Through textual analysis of movement literature, Devil of the Domestic Sphere portrays temperance as the instrument of a nascent middle class struggling for status and stability. Temperance reformers hoped to secure worldly success by disavowing alcohol and espousing a gender ideology that cast women as domestic guardians and men as their protectors and providers. Women found in this ideology an invitation to act as moral arbiters, but, according to Martin, the gender binary of the temperance movement advantaged men more than women. Indeed, he sees in temperance a persistent strain of misogyny, evident in the questions men raised about women's virtue and moral efficacy and in efforts to limit women's activism.

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