Prohibition

The Gender Barrier is Broken

Clip: Season 1 | 6m 51s  | Video has closed captioning.

Prohibition led in a sexual revolution for women. Drinking at speakeasies, mixing more with men, flappers broke from the repression of their suffragette mothers' time.

Aired: 10/02/11

Rating: NR

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Funding is provided by Bank of America; PBS; CPB; The National Endowment for the Humanities; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; members of the Better Angels Society, including the Montrone Family through The Penates Foundation; and Park Foundation, Inc.

Prohibition.

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