Sex and spirits
Subtitle: alcohol, gender, and technology in the colonial Chesapeake
By: Sarah Hand Meacham.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801893124
Subjects: Brewing -- Social aspects -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History; Distilling industries -- Social aspects -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History; Housewives -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History; Home economics -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History; Sex role -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History; Social classes -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History; Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History; Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 17th century; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "It was being too abstemious that brought this sickness upon me" : alcoholic beverage consumption in the early Chesapeake; title: "They will be adjudged by their drinke, what kind of housewives they are" : gender, technology, and household cidering in England and the Chesapeake, 1690 to 1760; title: "This drink cannot be kept during the summer" : large planters, science, and community networks in the early eighteenth century; title: "Anne Howard ... will take in gentlemen" : white middling women and the tavernkeeping trade in colonial Virginia; title: "Ladys here all go to market to supply their pantry" : alcohol for sale, 1760-1776; title: "Every man his own distiller" : technology, the American Revolution, and the masculinization of alcohol production in the late eighteenth century; title: "He is much addicted to strong drinke" : the problem of alcohol; title: A few recipes.