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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The New Temperance -- The Coercive Consensus -- Defining the "New Temperance" -- Questioning the Behavior Wars -- Organization of the Book -- 2 Déjà Vu All Over Again -- Remembering When -- Declaring Temperance Dead -- Back to the Past: The Old Temperance Movements -- The Old Substance Wars -- The Old Sex, Censorship, and Health Wars -- Censorship Wars: The Vice Societies -- Sex Wars: The Social Purity Movement -- Sex and Health Wars: The Social Hygiene Movement -- Themes: Hyperbole, Social Control, Class, and Political Power -- 3 Temperance and the Social Construction of Risk -- Constructing Social Problems -- Limitations of Social Constructionism -- Medicalization and Moral Panics -- Toward a Theory of Temperance -- The Tendency for Political and Social Elites to Support Temperance -- The Tendency Toward a Populist Temperance -- Historical Change -- 4 "The Slippery Slope," or Scaring Them Straight -- "Dry Logic" -- Blurring Boundaries: Drugs, Fear, and Trembling -- False Concreteness: The "Smoking Death" -- Reversing Cause and Effect? The Teen Pregnancy "Problem" -- Science as Morality: The "Multiple-Partner" Risk -- The Judgmental Dupe: "For They Know Not What They Do" -- 5 Getting "Lean and Mean": The Middle-Class Return to Respectability -- The Dilemmas of Being Middle Class -- The Achievement of Respectability in America: 1830-1920 -- The Partial Democratization of "Deviance": 1920s-1960s -- The Radical Attack on Respectability: 1960s-1970s -- The New Temperance and Economic Decline: 1970s-1990s -- The New Middle-Class Imperatives -- Social Class, Behavioral Norms, and Temperance -- 6 Manufacturing Consensus: The Politics of Puritanism -- American Electoral Conservatism and the Politics of Puritanism

1. The post-civil war north : triumphant for some -- 2. "Mr. Sanborn, Mr. Sanborn, I want to go to school!" -- 3. Yankee administrators and Irish populism -- 4. Keller and Sullivan : world fame and local hostility, 1887-1892 -- 5. The attack on Keller and Sullivan in the early twentieth century -- 6. Progressivism and radicalism in the 1910s -- 7. Generations, class, ethnicity, gender, and disability in the conflict.

Poorhouse, almshouse, poor farm -- Scenes from the poorhouse -- What the forefathers had in mind : the purpose and contradictions of the poorhouse -- Undermining the poorhouse : long and short-term inmates in the late nineteenth century -- Inmates, overseers, and the politics of the poorhouse -- The long end : inmates in the twentieth century poorhouse -- Matrons, doctors, staff and the end of the poorhouse -- The ironies of history : the return of the poorhouse