论美国禁酒运动中妇女的历史作用

On Women's Role in American Temperance

美国禁酒运动是长期以来吸引妇女注意力最多、妇女参加人数最多的一场意义深远的社会改革运动,在美国历史上产生了广泛和深远的影响。妇女是禁酒运动的先驱者,是最活跃的中坚力量,是美国禁酒运动真正的生力军,美国妇女为保护美国民主的“基石”———家庭和净化美国政治起到了重要的作用。

The American Temperance was a far- reaching social reform movement, which attracted most American women＇s attention and participation since a long time. It had widespread and profound influence on American history. Women were the pioneers, the most active parts and the actual leaders in the Temperance. American women played an important role in protecting the base of American democracy family and in cleaning the American polities .