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The present women’s liberation movement has an important historical link with alcohol problems and the Temperance Movement. From about 1880 on, there was a vigorous struggle for legal, educational and occupational rights of “the new woman.” The Temperance Movement had been going for some time, but late in the nineteenth century, under the leadership of Frances Willard, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union became an aggressive, militant organization with radical positions on a variety of social issues: It supported labor unions, prison reform, universal education, and women’s rights. The Temperance Movement withered away, largely destroyed by its own success, the prohibition amendment, but like all movements—women’s liberation included—it encompassed a variety of people with a variety of motives, ascetic, religious, or radical (Bacon, 1967).
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