Gin joints allowed women to drink alongside men for the first time, leading many to child neglect and prostitution.
Evidence
18th Century Gin Craze - London (History.co.uk)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Folktales can escalate into moral panics in troubled times. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 77; The Gin Craze was a moral panic about working-class women drinking gin. — Gin Craze: the moral panic about ‘mother’s ruin’ still demonises women
Related
- The Gin Craze was a moral panic about working-class women drinking gin. (similarity 0.93)
- The Gin Craze was a social, economic and political crisis intensified by underlying cultural anxieties concerning both gender and poverty. (similarity 0.88)
- Britain went through the same sort of moral panic 300 years ago when the ‘gin craze’ hit the streets. (similarity 0.86)
- The Gin Craze of the eighteenth century became the focal point for a wide range of only marginally-related social anxieties, transforming a problem into a crisis. (similarity 0.86)