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Moss, Stella - “Wartime Hysterics”?: Alcohol, Women and the Politics of Wartime Social Purity in England

Keywords:

British Women's Temperance Association (BWTA) | Central Control Board (CCB) | female inebriation | female liquor consumption | wartime social purity | women's social positions | women's wartime drinking

ISFWWS-Keywords:

Britain | Women and War | Home fronts | Society | Politics

Abstract:

In exploring the manifold constructions of female liquor consumption, this chapter contributes to the historiographical debates over the impact of the …