Final Lyceum Lecture: Women's Work During Prohibition with Alison Staudinger is Sunday, March 25 at 6 p.m.

The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums are proud to announce the line-up for the 2018 Winter Lyceum Lecture Series. All of these lectures are free to the public and will take place at the Platteville Municipal Auditorium at 75 N. Bonson Street in Platteville.

Prohibition was a nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages, mandated under the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Some women were outspoken proponents of Prohibition, claiming that the cost and effects of alcohol were detrimental to women, children, and family economics. There were also women who spoke out publicly against Prohibition and worked to repeal the amendment, claiming the original intention was lost and that the law had made things worse for mothers and children. Over the course of thirteen ‘dry’ years, some women’s work, and attitudes, changed to match the times. This talk will focus on the stories of real Wisconsin women and consider how the value of work in the home changed during Prohibition and how it is valued today.

Sponsored by the Wisconsin Humanities Council Working Lives ShopTalk Program.