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I love Judith Bennett's scholarship!: _Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600_ is seminal piece of historical and feminist scholarship. And then she applied what she had learned from studying late medieval/early modern England to broader historical patterns - the idea of the "patriarchal equilibrium" is brilliant! 2 comments
Women's importance as brewsters and the use of witchcraft allegations against troublesome women are fascinating subjects in their own right, but don't line up quite as nicely as the article suggests. The chronology is off, there is no documented disproportionate targeting of brewsters, and women stirred things in cauldrons for all kinds of reasons. |
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I use her article on compulsory labor after the Black Death (analyzing how the Statute of Laborers affected women) in my historical methods class on Black Death and the plague because it is so clever and thoughtful about using a limited source base to get at all the ways that power works in a society and what that means for ordinary people trying to live their lives.