What The Reviewers Say

Positive

Based on 4 reviews

Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

Mallory O'Meara

What The Reviewers Say

Positive

Based on 4 reviews

Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

Mallory O'Meara

Mixed
Sophie Lewis,
London Review of Books (UK)
O’Meara shows more or less equal enthusiasm for girlbosses and for the proletarian and peasant women who made and sold drink.
Rave
Kathleen McBroom,
Booklist
In this enlightening and entertaining survey of women and alcohol, feminist and very funny author O’Meara takes readers on a dipsomaniacal journey through numerous cultures.
Positive
Maggie Kimberl,
American Whiskey
When it comes to whiskey, there are some noteworthy women throughout history covered in the pages of Girly Drinks — and at least one glaring omission. Maria The Jewess is credited with inventing the alembic still in 200 CE.
Rave
Publishers Weekly
[A] thorough, and thoroughly entertaining, history. Using detailed portraits of 15 women...she dismantles false tropes around femininity with panache ...O’Meara uses what might seem lighthearted trivia to build spot-on social critique ...Elegantly woven into each cheeky chapter is rigorous historical context.