Judith M. Bennett, "Medieval Women, Modern Women: Across the Great Divide" in Culture and History 1350-1600: Essays onEnglish Communities, Identities and Writing,ed. David Aers (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992), 47-76. [Footnotes contain excellent bibliography on women, work and family in the Middle Ages]
Judith M. Bennett et al., eds., Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
Alcuin Blamires, Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology ofMedieval Texts (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1992). [An excellent introduction to medieval texts about women, and a great teaching tool]
Caroline Walker Bynum, Fragmentation and Redemption:Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion(New York: Zone Books, 1991).
Joan Cadden, Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Catherine S. Cox, Gender and Language in Chaucer, (Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1997).
Susan Crane, Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
Carolyn Dinshaw, Chaucerís Sexual Poetics,(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989).
Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, eds., Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth-centuryEngland(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996).
Elaine Tuttle Hanson, Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Britton J. Harwood and Gillian R. Overing, ed.Class and Gender in EarlyEnglish Literature(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
Sarah Kay and Miri Rubin, eds., Framing Medieval Bodies (New York: Manchester University Press, 1994).
Anne Laskaya, Chaucerís Approach to Gender in the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer Studies 23, (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer Press, 1995).
Karma Lochrie, Peggy McCracken and James A. Schultz, eds., Constructing Medieval Sexuality (Minneapolis:Ý University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
Linda Lomperis and Sarah Stanbury, ed., Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature(U of Penn. Press, 1994).
Toril Moi, "Desire in Language: Andreaus Capellanus and the Controversy of Courtly Love," in Aers-David (ed.) Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology, and History.(New York : St. Martin's, 1986).
Mary Beth Rose, ed. Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance:Literary and Historical Perspectives (Syracuse University Press, 1986).
*Special thanks to Laura Howes, who started this bibliography for us,
and to Emma Lipton who contributed to it greatly.
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