Women's Christian Temperance Union as an early Feminist movement

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2. My grandmother was a one time president of the NY WCTU

and she had ample reason to be so. She divorced my grandfather just before the Depression hit, mostly for the horrible things his alcoholism did to her and my mother.

In the meantime, she lived on Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Tonic, something that had a high percentage of alcohol in it. Oh well.

What people fail to remember about the temperance movement is that whether or not a man drank was a matter of life and death for women and children, the women being powerless to hold well paying jobs that would feed a family if Himself was drunk in a gutter.

So yes, it was an early feminist movement. Unfortunately, by focusing on Demon Rum, they neglected the true culprit, Demon Misogyinistic Law, something that's threatening to make a comeback thanks to the Koch boys.