The 49th and other parallels in the temperance auto/biographies of Letitia Youmans (Canada 1893) and Frances Willard (U.S. 1889). From: Vitae Scholasticae | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Lander, Dorothy A. | COPYRIGHT 2005 Caddo Gap Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

I have organized my research by interconnecting the autobiographies of two nineteenth-century leaders of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) with my own auto/biography of crisscrossing the US-Canada border. This strategy allows me to make sense of my formal and informal temperance education in a Canadian WCTU family and community during the 1960s. Border narratives and "border pedagogy" constitute educational processes that are "intent on challenging existing boundaries o...