Mallory O'Meara. (2021). Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol. Hanover Square Press.

Mallory O'Meara. 2021. Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol. Hanover Square Press.

Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol. Hanover Square Press, 2021.

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   • bioText: Mallory O'Meara is an author, screenwriter and a producer for the independent film company Dark Dunes Productions. Whether it is for the screen or the page, she seeks creative projects imbued with horror and monsters. A New England native, she now lives in Los Angeles.
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*A Finalist for the Spirited Award for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History or Spirits*
*A Guardian Best History and Politics Book of 2022*
"At last, the feminist history of booze we've been waiting for!" —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist
The James Beard Award-winning history of women drinking through the ages
Strawberry daiquiris. Skinny martinis. Vodka sodas with lime. These are the cocktails that come in sleek-stemmed glasses, bright colors and fruity flavors—these are the Girly Drinks.
From the earliest days of civilization, alcohol has been at the center of social rituals and cultures worldwide. But when exactly did drinking become a gendered act? And why have bars long been considered "places for men" when, without women, they might not even exist?
With whip-smart insight and boundless curiosity, Girly Drinks unveils an entire untold history of the female distillers, drinkers and brewers who have played a vital role in the creation and consumption of alcohol, from ancient Sumerian beer goddess Ninkasi to iconic 1920s bartender Ada Coleman. Filling a crucial gap in culinary history, O'Meara dismantles the long-standing patriarchal traditions at the heart of these very drinking cultures, in the hope that readers everywhere can look to each celebrated woman in this book—and proudly have what she's having.

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     May 1, 2021
     

     Never mind those men-only bars and gender-specific "girly drinks." As this feminist take on women and drinking attests, from the ancient Sumerian beer goddess Ninkasi to iconic 1920s bartender Ada Coleman and countless female distillers and brewers in between, women have played a key role in the consumption of alcohol throughout history. From the cohost of the literary podcast Reading Glasses; with a 50,000-copy first printing.

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from August 9, 2021
     “Who decided that drinking was a gendered act?” muses screenwriter O’Meara (The Lady from the Black Lagoon) in this thorough, and thoroughly entertaining, history. Using detailed portraits of 15 women—“all of ... illuminate different facets of what it was like to drink through the ages for a woman who wanted to have a drink”—she dismantles false tropes around femininity with panache. Her subjects range from the 12th-century Benedictine mother superior who realized hops could keep beer fresh, to Catherine the Great, who convinced soldiers to overthrow her husband by promising them vodka. Throughout, O’Meara uses what might seem lighthearted trivia to build spot-on social critique: “The double standard that drinking women face is deeply rooted in male anxieties about... women acting like people, not property.” Elegantly woven into each cheeky chapter is rigorous historical context; a profile of the 19th-century widow who popularized Champagne, for instance, also educates readers on cocktail culture in the United States before dovetailing with the story of Japanese sake revolutionary Tatsu’uma Kiyo. O’Meara glides easily from the 17th-century pulquerias of Mexico to the feminine “fern bars” of the 1970s, making sure to not to forget the queen of girly drinks: the Cosmopolitan. Provoking both thought and laughter, this serves as bracing refreshment from a master textual mixologist. Agent: Brady McReynolds, JABberwocky Literary Agency.

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     September 15, 2021
     In this enlightening and entertaining survey of women and alcohol, feminist and very funny author O'Meara (The Lady from the Black Lagoon, 2019) takes readers on a dipsomaniacal journey through numerous cultures, documenting how women have always taken the lead in the fermenting, brewing, distilling, and serving of strong spirits. O'Meara begins 25,000 years ago with a cave-carving of a mead-drinking goddess and ends with a profile of an award-winning twenty-first-century transgender bartender who specializes in LGBTQ+ cocktails. Named after famous imbibers (Cleopatra, Saint Hildegard, the Widow Clicquot), chapters spend almost as much time exploring women's rights and roles as they do on the chemistry, manufacture, marketing, and consumption of alcoholic drinks. O'Meara deftly blends in equal measures of social history, gossip, and solid research, and adds enjoyable footnotes. The final take-away is that despite male interference, ranging from sanctimonious condemnation of women who drink in public to harsh punishments (including death) for women who take even one sip, women have discovered, invented, advanced, championed, and celebrated alcohol. Ladies? This calls for a drink.

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     November 1, 2021
     

     Starting out with the early days of civilization and moving into the present day, O'Meara (host of the podcast Reading Glasses and author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon) traces a global history of women and alcohol. Readers might think of the "girly drinks" of the title as cocktails with little paper umbrellas, but O'Meara's is an amusing, feminist history of alcohol that offers insight into distillers, brewers, activists, and leaders throughout history. The book's 15 well-researched historical accounts include profiles of Cleopatra, Catherine the Great, and Apiwe Nxusani-Mawela, the first Black woman in South Africa to open a microbrewery. The author also discusses the Japanese "belief that a female deity...created the sake making process," and a history of champagne features Widow Clicquot and Madame de Pompadour (King Louis V's mistress) who is credited as an influential champagne promoter. O'Meara has interesting insight about One Hundred and One Beverages (1904) by May E. Southworth, which is believed to be the first cocktail book written by a woman. Fun facts abound in O'Meara's volume, but she also considers more serious matters, like the impact of the temperance movement and American Prohibition. VERDICT A unique, entertaining resource to bolster culinary and women's studies collections.--Barbara Kundanis, Longmont P.L., CO

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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*A Guardian Best History and Politics Book of 2022*
"At last, the feminist history of booze we've been waiting for!" —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist
The James Beard Award-winning history of women drinking through the ages
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From the earliest days of civilization, alcohol has been at the center of social rituals and cultures worldwide. But when exactly did drinking become a gendered act? And why have bars long been considered "places for men" when, without women, they might not even exist?
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