Prohibition Brought Women into the Bar—and Changed Everything
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 […]
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