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Where Should We Be Going with Medieval Women and Gender? - Daughters, Wives and Widows after the Black Death: Women in Sussex, 1350–1535. By Mavis E. Mate. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1998. Pp. xiii + 221. $72.00. - “Of Good and Ill Repute”: Gender and Social Control in Medieval England. By Barbara A. Hanawalt. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 208. $41.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

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Daughters, Wives and Widows after the Black Death: Women in Sussex, 1350–1535. By Mavis E. Mate. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1998. Pp. xiii + 221. $72.00.
“Of Good and Ill Repute”: Gender and Social Control in Medieval England. By Barbara A. Hanawalt. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 208. $41.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

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Kim Marie Phillips
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 241 - 247
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1 For the productive work of the last decade, see Rubin, Miri, “A Decade of Studying Medieval Women, 1987–1997,” History Workshop Journal 46 (1998): 213–39Google Scholar.

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3 Bennett, , “Feminism and History,” p. 258Google Scholar. For other voices of opposition, see Shoemaker, Robert and Vincent, Mary, eds., Gender and History in Western Europe (London, 1998), pp. 7–8Google Scholar.

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