From Tapsters to Beer Wenches: Women, Alcohol, and Misogyny, Then and Now.

Author / Editor
Harris, Carissa M.

Title
From Tapsters to Beer Wenches: Women, Alcohol, and Misogyny, Then and Now.

Published
John A. Geck, Rosemary O’Neill, and Noelle Phillips, eds. Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 265-84.

Description
Analyzes "how English and Scottish literature and law during the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries connected the figure of the tapster to sex work, transgression, public harm, and dangerous agency over men," and traces residue of this misogyny in modern "breastaurants" (e.g., Hooters). Includes discussion of the "Canterbury Interlude" that precedes the apocryphal "Tale of Beryn."

Alternative Title
Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucerian Apocrypha