A Feminist Genealogy of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union: Re-membering Our Selves

Authors

Dorothy A. Lander

Abstract

From the article:

The purpose of my memory work project and this article is to begin to create a “history of the present” (Dean, 1994) through collective remembering in Lipsitz’s (1988) sense of “shared experiences and perceptions about the past that legitimate action in the present” (p. 288). I adapt Nasstrom’s (1999) analysis of memory and narrative and women’s activism to the memory work with my WCTU family, friends and neighbours in the farming community in Ontario where I grew up. We “become historical actors who intervene between the past and the present, continually reframing the movement” (p. 134).

Author Biography

Dorothy A. Lander, Assistant Professor, Department of Adult Education Box 5000, Xavier Hall St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia

Recommended Citation

Lander, Dorothy A. (2013) "A Feminist Genealogy of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union: Re-membering Our Selves," Journal of International Women's Studies: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 5.
Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol2/iss1/5