Introduction : silenced voices
Part One. From pedestal to pen and podium
Woman's rights in woman's wrongs : temperence women at mid-century
Patriotic reformers : "Called by the spirit of the Lord to lead the women of the world"
Woman-tempered rhetoric : public presentation and the WCTU
Part Two. Controversy surrounding the cause
Dissension and division : racial tension and the WCTU
Red-nosed angels and the corseted crusade : newspaper accounts of nineteenth-century temperance reformers
Part Three. Fictional accounts of feminine concerns
"The feelings of the romantic and fashionable" : women's issues in temperance fiction
"Wine drinkers and heartless profligates" : water drops from popular novelists
Conclusion : women of the century.