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East Tennessee State University
The Temperance Worker as Social Reformer and Ethnographer as Exemplified in the Life and Work of Jessie A. Ackermann.
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This project used primary historical documents from the Jessie A. Ackermann collection at ETSU's Archives of Appalachia, other books and documents from the temperance period, and recent scholarship on the subjects of temperance, suffrage, and women travelers and civilizers. As the second world missionary for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Ackermann traveled in order to establish WCT Unions and worked as a civilizer, feminist, and reporter of the conditions of women and the disadvantaged throughout the world.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- MALS (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis - unrestricted
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Liberal Studies
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2009
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Carr, Margaret Shipley
Subjects
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dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright by the authors.
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1869
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dc.etsu.edu:etd-3221