WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION

(Woman's Christian Temperance Union)


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Women's Christian Temperance Union

Mrs. Cleveland should not wear immoral gowns showing her bare arms and shoulders.
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Note the “proper” dress of the women in the photograph. The impropriety of a woman showing bare skin has not been unique to fundamentalist Muslim societies.

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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an active international temperance organization that was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." It plays an influential role in the temperance movement. The organization supported the 18th Amendment and was also influential in social reform issues that came to prominence in the progressive era.