| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133.2

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Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-class Ideology, 1800–1860. By Scott C. Martin. (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008. xi, 204 pp. Illustrations, notes, works cited, index. $38.)

Cultural historian Scott C. Martin presents a thoughtful and innovative study that transcends the source-imposed boundaries of most works on this great antebellum reform. Histories compiled from reams of temperance society and government records seldom yield the amount of information on women that is available on men. And as all scholars of the early nineteenth century quickly learn, rare records of women's groups do survive, but the majority of associational and individual experiences are particularly difficult to coax from the shadows of the past. In an effort to reclaim the world in which these women lived, raised their families, and joined the ranks of temperance activists, Martin takes a creative leap into the larger realm of print culture and widens the lens to include sentimental fiction, sermons, medical "science," and prints. The result is a dramatic, evocative, and often disturbing account of the contradictory identities that antialcohol reformers gleaned from this plethora of material and then attached to American women.

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