JUDITH M. BENNETT’S

PUBLICATIONS ON THE WEB

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(Last updated: 26 August 2012)

For a full curriculum vitae, see my faculty page at the University of Southern California.

RESEARCH BOOKS

• History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (University of Pennsylvania Press and Manchester University Press, 2006).  A forum on this book appears in the Journal of Women's History 20:2 (2008), pp. 130-154.  The forum includes comments by Iris Berger, Leila J. Rupp, Ulrike Strasser, and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, as well as my reply. In March 2009, this book was the subject of a bloggers' roundtable at Notorious Ph.D., Historiann, Tenured Radical, Another Damned Medievalist, and again at Notorious Ph.D.  It was also simultaneously discussed at Magistra et Mater.

• Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300 to 1600 (Oxford University Press, 1996).

• Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender and Household in Brigstock before the Plague (Oxford University, 1987).

EDITED BOOKS

• Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800, co-edited with Amy F. Froide (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).

• Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages, co-edited with Elizabeth A. Clark, et al. (University of Chicago Press, 1989).
  

TEACHING BOOKS

• Medieval Europe: A Short History (11th edition: McGraw-Hill, 2011). See also the website MedievalEuropeOnline.com.

• Medieval Women in Modern Perspective (American Historical Association pamphlet, 2007). Reprinted in Women's History in Global Perspective, vol. 2, Bonnie Smith, ed. (University of Illinois Press, 2005), 139-186.

• A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1297-1344 (McGraw-Hill, 1998). This book has been summarized in a SparkNotes study guide.

ARTICLES (all available as "electronic offprints" in PDF format).

• Death and the Maiden, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern History 42:2 (2012), 269-305.

• Remembering Elizabeth Etchingham and Agnes Oxenbridge, in The Lesbian Premodern, Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt, eds. (Palgrave, 2011), 131-145.

• Compulsory Service in Late Medieval England, Past and Present 209 (2010), 7-51.

• Two Women and their Monumental Brass, c. 1480, Journal of the British Archaeological Association 161 (2008), 163-184.

• Forgetting the Past, Gender & History 20:3 (2008), 669-677.

• Philippa Russell and the Wills of London's Late Medieval Singlewomen, coauthored with Christopher Whittick, The London Journal 32:3 (2007), 251-269.

• The Curse of the Plowman, Yearbook of Langland Studies 20 (2006), 215-226.

• The Lost Pasts of Women's History, Medieval Feminist Forum 41 (2006), 88-97.

• Writing Fornication: Medieval Leyrwite and its Historians, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 6th series, 13 (2003), 131-162.

• England: Women and Gender, in A Companion to British History in the Later Middle Ages, S.H. Rigby, ed. (Blackwell, 2003), 87-106.

• Queens, Whores, and Maidens: Women in Chaucer's England, Hayes Robinson Lecture (Royal Holloway, University of London, 2002).

• Ventriloquisms: When Maidens Speak in English Songs, c. 1300-1550, in Medieval Woman’s Song: Cross-Cultural Approaches, Anne Klinck and Anne Marie Rasmussen, eds. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), 187-04.

• 'Lesbian-Like' and the Social History of Lesbianisms, Journal of the History of Sexuality 9 (2000), 1-24. Reprinted in The Feminist History Reader, Sue Morgan, ed. (Routledge, 2006), 244-259. Both of these versions contain an error (an undeleted copyeditor’s query) that is corrected only in this PDF (on page 14). See also 'Lesbian-Like' and its Theoretical and Historical Implications for the Study of Women's Sexuality, SSHMA Newsletter (Spring, 2001).

• A Singular Past, co-authored with Amy Froide in Singlewomen in the European Past, Judith M. Bennett and Amy Froide, eds. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), 1-37

• Confronting Continuity, Journal of Women’s History 9 (1997), 73-94.

• Women and Men in the Brewer's Gild of London, in The Salt of Common Life: Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside and Church. Essays Presented to J. Ambrose Raftis on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, Edwin B. DeWindt, ed. (Medieval Institute Press, 1995), 181-232.

• Our Colleagues, Ourselves, in The Past and Future of Medieval Studies, John Van Engen, ed. (University of Notre Dame Press, 1993), 245-258.

• Women's History: A Study in Continuity and Change, Women’s History Review 2 (1993), 174-184. Reprinted in Women’s Work: The English Experience, 1650-1914, Pamela Sharpe, ed. (Arnold, 1998), 56-68.

• Medievalism and Feminism, in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 68 (1993), 309-331. Reprinted with a new annotated bibliography in Studying Medieval Women: Sex, Gender, Feminism, Nancy F. Partner, ed. (Medieval Academy of America, 1993), 7-29 and 171-175.

• Widows in the Medieval English Countryside, in Upon My Husband’s Death: Widows in the Literature and Histories of Medieval Europe, Louise Mirrer, ed. (University of Michigan Press, 1992), 69-114.

• Conviviality and Charity in Medieval and Early Modern England, Past and Present 134 (February, 1992), 19-41. My reply in a debate generated by this article can be found in Past and Present 154 (February, 1997), 235-242.

• Medieval Women, Modern Women: Across the Great Divide, in Culture and History 1350-1600: Essays on English Communities, Identities, and Writing, David Aers, ed. (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992), 147-175. Revised version in Feminists Revision History, Ann-Louise Shapiro, ed. (Rutgers University Press, 1994), 47-72.

• Misogyny, Popular Culture and Women's Work, History Workshop Journal 31 (1991), 166-188.

• Feminism and History, Gender & History 1 (1989), 251-272.

• Crafts, Gilds, and Women in the Middle Ages: Fifty Years After Marian K. Dale, co-authored with Maryanne Kowaleski, Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14 (1989), 474-488. Reprinted in Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages, Judith M. Bennett et al., eds. (University of Chicago Press, 1989), 11-25.

• 'History that Stands Still': Women's Work in the European Past, Feminist Studies 14 (1988), 269-283.

• Public Power and Authority in the Medieval English Countryside, in Women and Power in the Middle Ages, Mary Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds. (University of Georgia Press, 1988), 18-36.

• The Village Ale-Wife: Women and Brewing in Fourteenth-Century England, in Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe, Barbara A. Hanawalt, ed. (University of Indiana Press, 1986), 20-36.  Caveat: my interpretation in this article was substantively revised by the time I wrote Ale, Beers and Brewsters.

• The Tie That Binds: Peasant Marriages and Families in Late Medieval England, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 15 (1984), 111-129. Reprinted in Medieval Families: Perspectives on Marriage, Household, and Children, ed. Carol Neel (Medieval Academy of America, 2004), 214-233.

• Spouses, Siblings and Surnames: Reconstructing Families from Medieval Village Court Rolls, Journal of British Studies 23 (1983), 26-46.

• Medieval Peasant Marriage: An Examination of Marriage License Fines in the Liber Gersumarum, in Pathways to Medieval Peasants, J.A. Raftis, ed. (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1981), 193-246.

MISCELLANY

• Sagnfræðin, femínisminn og feðraveldið, an interview with Erla Halldórsdóttir, Saga 47:2 (2009), 39-54.

• Continuing the Historical Conversation: An Interview with Judith M. Bennett, Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 5 (1999), 1-12.