HISTORY 310
DAUGHTERS OF EVE, SISTERS OF MARY: WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES
 

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING



Atkinson, Clarissa, The Oldest Vocation (Ithaca, 1991)

Bennett, Judith, et al., eds., Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages (Chicago,1989)

Blamires, Alcuin, ed., Woman Defamed and Woman Defended (Oxford, 1992)

Boswell, John, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality (Chicago, 1980)

Boyarin, Daniel, "Paul and the Genealogy of Gender," Representations 41 (1993).

Brooke, Christopher, The Medieval Idea of Marriage (Oxford, 1989)

Brown, Peter, The Body and Society (New York, 1988)

Brundage, James A., Law, Sex and Christian Society in Medieval Europe (Chicago, 1987)

Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble (New York, 1990)

Bynum, Caroline W., Holy Feast and Holy Fast (Berkeley, 1987)

Bynum, Caroline W., Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval
Religion (New York, 1991)

Carpenter, Jennifer and Sally-Beth MacLean, eds., Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women
(Urbana, 1995)

Chance, Jane, ed., Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages (Gainesville, 1996)

Cohen, Jeffrey J. and Bonnie Wheeler, eds., Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (New York, 1997)

Dronke, Peter, Women Writers of the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1984)

Duby, Georges, ed., A History of Private Life. Volume II: Revelations of the Medieval World (Cambridge, MA,1988)

Gold, Penny S., The Lady and the Virgin (Chicago, 1985)

Howell, Martha, Women, Production and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities (Chicago, 1986)

Johnson, Penelope, Equal in Monastic Profession (Chicago, 1991)

Karras, Ruth M., Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England (Oxford, 1996)

Kay, Sarah and Miri Rubin, eds., Framing Medieval Bodies (Manchester, 1994)

Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane, Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy (Chicago, 1985)

Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane, ed., A History of Women in the West. Volume II: Silences of the Middle Ages
 (Cambridge, MA, 1992)

Laqueur, Thomas, Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud (Cambridge, MA, 1990)

Lees, Clare, ed., Medieval Masculinities (Minneapolis, 1994)

Lomperis, Linda, and Sarah Stanbury, eds., Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature
 (Philadelphia, 1993)

Newman, Barbara, From Virile Woman to WomanChrist (Philadelphia, 1995)

Newman, Barbara, Sister of Wisdom: St Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine (Berkeley, 1987)

Pagels, Elaine, Adam, Eve and the Serpent (New York, 1988)

Petroff, Elizabeth, Medieval Women's Visionary Literature (Oxford, 1986)

Petroff, Elizabeth, Body and Soul: Essays on Medieval Women and Mysticism (Oxford, 1994)

Rossiaud, Jacques, Medieval Prostitution (Oxford, 1988)

Salisbury, Joyce, Perpetua's Passion: the Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman (New York, 1997)

Schulenburg, Jane T., Forgetful of their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society, ca.500-1100 (Chicago, 1998)

Scott, Joan, Gender and the Politics of History (New York, 1988)

Stafford, Pauline, Queens, Concubines and Dowagers (Athens, GA, 1984)

Stuard, Susan M., ed., Women in Medieval History and Historiography (Philadelphia, 1987)

Thiebaux, Marcelle, ed., The Writings of Medieval Women (New York, 1987)

Ward, Jennifer C., English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages (London, 1992)

Wemple, Suzanne F., Women in Frankish Society (Philadelphia, 1985)

Willard, Charity C., Christine de Pisan: Her Life and Works (New York, 1984)

Wilson, Katharina, ed., Medieval Women Writers (Athens, GA., 1984)



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