text: There is a connection between feminism and booze, exetertailor, but not the one you suggest. 
  Prohibition itself had nothing to do with feminism, although outspoken women (including Nellie McClung, a paid dry speaker) championed prohibition. But not all those supporting prohibition supported feminism.   
  
  In the west, at least, temperance had a lot to do with WW I.  The connection? People back home were devastated by daily casualty lists: friends, neighbours and relatives--in every town and city in the country. Surely there was a way to demonstrate that, we, too, could make a sacrifice?  So, society sacrificed booze.  Totally irrational: soldiers overseas didn't forsake booze--daily rum helped them survive! Many rioted when they returned home and couldn't drink legally; governments' policies about liquor were warped trying to deal with it. 
  
  Prohibition ended, in part, because when women achieve suffrage, most voted to go WET again--especially in B.C!