Gin Craze: the moral panic about 'mother's ruin' still demonises women
Our series of extracts from unstaged scripts continues with a musical giving voice to the working-class women whose lives were changed by alochol Gin Craze is set during the 18th-century moral panic about working-class women drinking a newly invented, potent form of alcohol: gin. They not only drank it, they found a new economic freedom in selling it and worshipped it as a semi-divine "mother". Today we still talk ab…
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