Potential evidence that technical folklore could encode and normalize women's exclusion from production spaces. Any publication use should retain the attribution and explicitly reject the superstition as false.
The passage reports historical lore, not a biological fact. The underlying oral history is held by the University of Louisville.
Givens reproduces Ova Haney's 1985 oral-history recollection of a yeast-room sign excluding women and a belief that menstruation could kill yeast; Haney himself links the belief to inherited superstition.
Fermentation discussion — Ova Haney’s recollection of yeast-room exclusion
Fermentation discussion — Ova Haney’s recollection of yeast-room exclusion
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