174: Dialectics of Alcohol Prohibition

About this episode

The episode discusses the history and implications of alcohol prohibition in the United States, focusing on the role of Carrie Nation and the temperance movement.

This week I talk about alcohol prohibition and the birth of the 18th Amendment. Mainstream media, strategically manipulated by a woman named Carrie Nation and her posse of temperance propagandists, talked the United States into responding to problems stemming from rapid industrialization (addiction, homelessness, etc.) by outlawing alcohol in 1919, and they pulled it off by using Christianity and Femininity as tools of social change despite being unable to vote as women at that time. Su...

People in this episode

Host: Benjamin Boyce

Topics covered

• alcohol prohibition
• 18th Amendment
• Carrie Nation
• temperance movement
• social change
• industrialization

Keywords

• alcohol prohibition
• 18th Amendment
• Carrie Nation
• temperance
• social change
• addiction
• homelessness

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: mainstream media

Books & works: 18th Amendment

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