Women's Organization for National Prohibition Repeal

Lady Liquor: Getting Out the Vote, Filling Up the Hip Flask, and Teaching Little Johnny to Drink

History post by christenmccurdy on November 6, 2012 - 1:47pm; tagged Abigail Scott Duniway, getting out the vote, Idaho, lipstick, Lois Long, Oregon, Prohibition, suffrage, Washington, Women's Christian Temperance Union, Women's Organization for National Prohibition Repeal.

Abigail Scott Duniway, voting in an Oregon election for the first time

Once women got the right to vote, they didn't consistently vote dry – in part because an unintended consequence of Prohibition (working in tandem with the social and economic aftermath of World War I) was that for the first time in U.S. history, drinking was no longer the exclusive provenance of men. Women held or went to parties where alcohol was served, and they also went out to speakeasies. The Women's Organization for National Prohibition Repeal turned the WCTU's home-hearth-and-health arguments right back at them, saying, “Children are growing up with a total lack of respect for the Constitution and for the law.”

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