Schrad — Character caricatures can obscure the grievances behind reform activism — PDF 30–35

Schrad criticizes portrayals of Carrie Nation that foreground appearance, eccentricity, and purported pathology while neglecting her stated objections to liquor commerce, official corruption, and women’s vulnerability.

Mark Lawrence Schrad, Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition (Oxford University Press, 2021), printed pp. 5–10, physical PDF pp. 30–35 of supplied 753-page copy.

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