{"id":51833,"date":"2023-03-02T15:17:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T20:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=51833"},"modified":"2023-03-31T09:42:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T13:42:26","slug":"professor-christopher-evans-published-in-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/professor-christopher-evans-published-in-the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Christopher Evans publishes article in The Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following is an excerpt from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation US\u2019s<\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-frances-willard-shaped-feminism-by-leading-the-19th-century-temperance-movement-198974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Frances Willard shaped feminism by leading the\u00a0<span class=\"nobr\">19th-century<\/span>\u00a0temperance\u00a0movement<\/a>\u201d by Professor of History of Christianity and Methodist Studies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/christopher-h-evans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christopher Evans<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-frances-willard-shaped-feminism-by-leading-the-19th-century-temperance-movement-198974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> to read the full article.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Global reach of temperance movement<\/h3>\n<p>Born in 1839, Willard wanted to become a Methodist minister. Instead, she became a teacher, as women could rarely be ordained at the time. Ultimately, she became the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northwestern.edu\/150-years-of-women\/learn\/library-exhibit\/fireworks-and-fire.html\">first dean of the newly founded Woman\u2019s College at Northwestern University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1874, Willard helped found the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scalar.usc.edu\/works\/willard-and-wells\/the-wctu-temperance-and-prohibition\">Woman\u2019s Christian Temperance Union<\/a>, an organization committed to campaigning for prohibition legislation. She was elected its president in 1879, holding that office until her death in 1898. Throughout her presidency, the WCTU ran shelters, medical dispensaries and free kindergartens that reached out to destitute families.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a class=\"button btn-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-frances-willard-shaped-feminism-by-leading-the-19th-century-temperance-movement-198974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from The Conversation US\u2019s\u00a0article \u201cHow Frances Willard shaped feminism by leading the\u00a019th-century\u00a0temperance\u00a0movement\u201d by Professor of History of Christianity and Methodist Studies Christopher Evans. Click here to read the full article. Global reach of temperance movement Born in 1839, Willard wanted to become a Methodist minister. Instead, she became a teacher, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[200,203],"tags":[384,194,250,401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52021,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51833\/revisions\/52021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}