Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 3937
Author(s): Swett, Katharine W.
Contributor(s):
Title : Assessing Patriarchies: Continuity and Change for European Women [The author analyzes five recent books including "Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England" by Judith Bennett and "Celtic Women" by Peter Ellis].

Source: Journal of Women's History (Full Text via Project Muse) 11, 2 (Summer 1999): 224-235. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1999.

2. Record Number: 4710
Author(s): Ewan, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : For Whatever Ales Ye: Women as Consumers and Producers in Late Medieval Scottish Towns [The author considers women's economic roles by concentrating on ale brewing, a flexible part-time occupation that grew out of women's work as purchasers of goods for the household].

Source: Women in Scotland c. 1100-c. 1750. Edited by Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle . Tuckwell Press, 1999. Pages 125 - 135.
Year of Publication: 1999.

3. Record Number: 2407
Author(s): Bennett, Judith M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Confronting Continuity [argues that the medieval period saw much change in women's lives but little transformation in their status in relation to men].

Source: Journal of Women's History 9, 3 (Autumn 1997): 73-94.
Year of Publication: 1997.

4. Record Number: 13836
Author(s): Hanna, Ralph, III
Contributor(s):
Title : Brewing Trouble: On Literature and History -- and Alewives [The author critically examines Judith Bennett's analysis of alewives in Middle English literature, in particular in Langland's "Piers Plowman." Hanna argues that misogyny is just one factor animating the portrayals and points to a distrust of people in the food trade, a concern with profit over and above a proper return, and the need to restrain pleasure. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth-Century England. Edited by Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace . Medieval Cultures series, 9. University of Minnesota Press, 1996. Pages 1 - 17.
Year of Publication: 1996.

5. Record Number: 574
Author(s): Olson, Sherri.
Contributor(s):
Title : Families Have Their Fate and Periods: Varieties of Family Experience in the Pre-Industrial Village [case studies of twelve families in the village of Ellington. After 1350 there is a dramatic decrease in the number of women's names in the village records].

Source: The Salt of Common Life: Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside, and Church: Essays Presented to J. Ambrose Raftis. Edited by Edwin Brezette DeWindt Studies in Medieval Culture, 36. Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1995. Pages 409 - 448.
Year of Publication: 1995.

6. Record Number: 573
Author(s): Bennett, Judith M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women and Men in the Brewers' Gild of London, CA 1420 [unlike other guilds, the brewers admitted women in large numbers, but they were excluded from certain guild functions].