Prohibition Brought Women into the Bar—and Changed Their Role in the World

In pre-Prohibition America, respectable women didn’t belly up to bars. But after the 18th Amendment criminalized the production and sale of liquor, speakeasies brought about a different set of rules.  Behind the unmarked doors of those illicit establishments, women ordered cocktails sweetened to tame harsh bootleg spirits, smoked in public, danced to jazz, and mingled freely with men. The... Read more

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