Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- A Brief Note on Conventions and Terms -- ONE: Brewsters -- TWO: When Women Brewed -- THREE: New Markets, Lost Opportunities: Singlewomen and Widows as Harbingers of Change -- FOUR: Working Together: Wives and Husbands in the Brewers' Gild of London -- FIVE: New Beer, Old Ale: Why Was Female to Male as Ale Was to Beer? -- SIX: Gender Rules: Women and the Regulation of Brewing -- SEVEN: These Things Must Be if We Sell Ale: Alewives in English Culture and Society -- EIGHT: Women's Work in a Changing World -- APPENDIX: Interpreting Presentments under the Assize of Ale -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.