Intemperate Women: Female Inebriates, Temperance Fiction, and Nineteenth-Century Medicine.

The article focuses on the portrayal of female inebriates in nineteenth-century American temperance fiction, particularly in Mary Spring Walker's "The Family Doctor". Topics include the gendered dynamics of alcoholism and its medical management, the societal pressures on women and their domestic roles, and the way institutionalized medicine in the 19th century shaped and reinforced norms around gender and health.