TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bennett,Judith M.
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Ale, beer and brewsters in England: women's work in a changing world, 1300-1600 
AV  - HD6073.L62 G723 1996
U1  - 331.4/86342/0942 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Women brewers
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - Women
KW  - Middle Ages, 500-1500
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Medieval, 500-1500
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliography:  p. 237-250 and index; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
N2  - "Women brewed and sold most of the ale drunk in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London - as well as in many towns and villages - were male, not female. Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England investigates this transition, asking how, when, and why brewing ceased to be a women's trade and became a trade of men." "Drawing on a wide variety of sources - such as literary and artistic materials, court records, accounts, and administrative orders - Judith Bennett vividly describes how brewsters (that is, female brewers) slowly left the trade. She tells a story of commercial growth, gild formation, changing technologies, innovative regulations, and finally, enduring ideas that linked brewsters with drunkenness and disorder." "Examining this instance of seemingly dramatic change in women's status, Bennett argues that it included significant elements of continuity. Women might not have brewed in 1600 as often as they had in 1300, but they still worked predominantly in low-status, low-skilled, and poorly remunerated tasks. Using the experiences of brewsters to rewrite the history of women's work during the rise of capitalism, Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England offers a telling story of the endurance of patriarchy in a time of dramatic economic change."
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