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My taster will be about a children's temperance periodical, but since it has been locked up/down since before I started prepping for the symposium I have no photographs from the archive at all. [For more on this see http://bit.ly/2Wbtdwc http://bit.ly/35JJZWg 0/6
@speccollshef has a small collection of the "Band of Hope Review & Children's Friend" from the 1850's. The B of H was a youth temperance movement popular with churches & kids, but *controversial* because critical of male wage earners, if drinkers.
#VPFAReligion @VPFA1 1/6
#VPFAReligion @VPFA1 1/6
The early 19th-c breadwinner drank away the housekeeping by right. By the 20th he showed mastery by providing for his family. According to @Olsensid, this new masculinity, a cultural transformation, is Temperance's greatest legacy. See http://bit.ly/3dlzye8 2/6
Temperance's new femininity is less well known. In the Review romance/male approval is not sought. No wifely obedience. Working women & girls are respectable & intelligent. Women's arduous menial jobs are treated realistically & industrialists learned it all from mum ... 3/6
The Journal's v. Xian but only 3 Bible stories: no biblical ref. for female virtue. Women/girls appear in drawings, vignettes & stories. Appeals to general virtue are often religious, but not those directed to women/girls only, which rely on common sense 5/6
Why no Bible stories of girls? In the 1850's cultural ideas of the Bible are about patriarchal obedience, not kindness, the Journal's main (Xian) virtue. Culturally, biblical women obey & birth. Then as now anything is easier to change than folks' idea of the Bible. 6/6
