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A woman's place is in the brewhouse : a forgotten history of alewives, brewsters, witches, and CEOs / Tara Nurin ; [foreword by Teri Fahrendorf].

Van Pelt Library TP573 .N87 2021
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Nurin, Tara, author.
Contributor:
Fahrendorf, Teri, writer of foreword.
Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Brewing.
History.
Women brewers.
United States.
Women brewers--History.
Brewing--History.
Businesswomen--United States.
Businesswomen.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
xvi, 272 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2021]
Summary:
"An engaging history of beer brewing explores women's fundamental yet forgotten role in brewing throughout history and reveals the political, economic, and religious forces that have edged them out of the industry every time it became profitable. It's a history that's simultaneously inspiring and demeaning. Wherever and whenever the cottage brewing industry has grown profitable, politics, religion, and capitalism have grown greedy. On a macro scale, men have repeatedly seized control and forced women out of the business. Other times, women have simply lost the minimal independence, respect, and economic power brewing brought them. But there are more breweries now than at any time in American history and today women serve as founder, CEO, or head brewer at more than one thousand of them.As women continue to work hard for equal treatment and recognition in the industry, author Tara Nurin shows readers that women have been-and are once again becoming-relevant in the brewing world"--provided by publisher.
Contents:
1 The Rebeginning p. 1
2 Planting the Seed p. 8
3 Rainbows End down That Highway p. 13
4 The Hymn to Ninkasi p. 20
5 The Birth of Beervana p. 26
6 Of Goddesses and High Priestesses p. 34
7 Decentralization p. 37
8 Brew Like an Egyptian p. 42
9 The Great Eastward Migration p. 47
10 What's Past Is Prologue p. 55
11 Relax, Don't Worry, Have a Homebrew p. 62
12 It's a Sahti Paati p. 68
13 Slow Food, Slower Beer p. 74
14 B(eer) Is for Barbarians p. 81
15 The Last of the First Craft Brewery Women p. 86
16 The Fatherland p. 94
17 Boom and Bust p. 101
18 Wallflower at the Orgy p. 106
19 Alewives Unflattered p. 113
20 Beer's Bridge over Troubled Water p. 123
21 Strange Brew: Did Renaissance Brewsters Practice Fermentation ... Or Witchcraft? p. 128
22 These Boots Are Made for Brewing p. 137
23 Coming to America p. 145
24 From the Back Office to the Boardroom p. 156
25 Rivers of Lager Flow Toward Temperance p. 161
26 The Customer Is Sometimes Right p. 178
27 Prohibited from the Halls of Power No More p. 185
28 Big Boss Ladies and the Family Ties That Bind p. 192
29 Don't Worry, Darling, You Didn't Burn the Beer p. 202
30 Beyond Beards, Beyond Breasts p. 214
31 It's a Woman's World After All p. 220
32 Raging Bitches p. 227
33 That's Right, the Women Are Smarter p. 236
34 Sisters Are Brewing It for Themselves p. 241.
Local Notes:
Athenaeum copy: Gift of the publisher.
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
ISBN:
9781641603423
1641603429
OCLC:
1240209639

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