Jean F. O'Barr

Mary Wyer

Sarah Westphal-Wihl

Micheline R. Malson

A survey of recent major developments within feminist theory and analysis, this collection captures a period of transition in women's scholarship, from the examination of confining categories and constructs to the self-reflective development of feminist theory. The fourteen essays in this volume provide critical application of the practices of complicating gender, raising consciousness, engaging contradictions, transforming women's experiences, and naming the politics of theory.

Feminist Theory in Practice and Process

Judith M. Bennett

Elizabeth A. Clark

Judith Mackenzie Bennett

B. Anne Vilen

Focusing on medieval women with a wide range of occupations and life-styles, the interdisciplinary essays in this collection examine women's activities within the patriarchal structures of the time. Individual essays explore women's challenges to a sexual ideology that confined them strictly to the roles of wives, mothers, and servants. Also included are sections on women and work, cultural production and literacy, and religious life. These essays provide a greater understanding of the ways in which gender has played a part in determining relations of power in Western cultures. This volume makes a vital contribution to the current scholarship about women in the Middle Ages.

Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages

Sarah Westphal-Wihl

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