The Gin Craze was a moral panic about working-class women drinking gin.

Evidence

Gin Craze: the moral panic about ‘mother’s ruin’ still demonises women (The Guardian)

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; Gin joints allowed women to drink alongside men for the first time, leading many to child neglect and prostitution. — 18th Century Gin Craze - London; Britain went through the same sort of moral panic 300 years ago when the ‘gin craze’ hit the streets. — Binge drink panic mirrors Hogarth’s ‘gin craze’ (+2 more)

Related

• Gin joints allowed women to drink alongside men for the first time, leading many to child neglect and prostitution. (similarity 0.93)
• Britain went through the same sort of moral panic 300 years ago when the ‘gin craze’ hit the streets. (similarity 0.93)
• The Gin Craze was a social, economic and political crisis intensified by underlying cultural anxieties concerning both gender and poverty. (similarity 0.91)
• 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 0.91)