02669nam a2200337Ia 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020001500112040002100127035002100148050002800169082002500197100002300222245013100245260004800376300002400424504005000448520132300498533015201821650003701973650005202010650004202062650003602104655002902140710001702169856012602186999001902312ebr10142103CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||960104s1996    nyua    sb    001 0 eng d  z   96001271   z0195073908  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)56792799814aHD6073.L62bG723 1996eb04a331.4/86342/09422201 aBennett, Judith M.10aAle, beer and brewsters in Englandh[electronic resource] :bwomen's work in a changing world, 1300-1600 /cJudith M. Bennett.  aNew York :bOxford University Press,c1996.  axiv, 260 p. :bill.  aIncludes bibliography:  p. 237-250 and index.1 a"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."  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2009.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aWomen brewerszEnglandxHistory. 0aWomenzEnglandxHistoryyMiddle Ages, 500-1500. 0aEconomic historyyMedieval, 500-1500. 0aEconomic historyy16th century. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10142103zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c196065d196065