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Women, Gender, Sexuality

Early Modern Women Online (University of Maryland Libraries) a bibliography of web resources, mainly for sites relating to women writers and artists

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women an interdisciplinary network for scholars studying and teaching on just about any topic relating to early modern women

Women and power in early modern England (J L Klein) pages for a taught course, including an extensive bibliography, image gallery and links (unavailable, January '04)

Gender, family, household: seventeenth-century norms and controversies (Norton Topics Online) discussion and selections from seventeenth-century texts, including advice books, diaries and letters, religious rites, published tracts (such as Milton on divorce)

Huswifery (Internet Shakespeare Editions) a selection of 'how to be the ideal housewife' texts (with commentary and glossary), showing the sheer range of skills that this involved, from medicine to marketing

The Housewife's Rich Cabinet (Folger Library) illustrated commentary from an exhibition of 90 books and manuscripts of the 16th through the 18th century

Order in the sexes (Internet Shakespeare Editions) extracts on gender relations

Impudent women: carnival and gender in early modern culture (Kate Chedgzoy) wide-ranging essay on the 'carnivalesque' and its gendered meanings

The Querelle des Femmes (University of Arizona) online versions of the early seventeenth-century texts surrounding the 'woman controversy', including The Arraignment of Lewd Women (1615) and responses to it and the two pamphlets of 1620, Hic Mulier and Haec Vir

Women's words in early modern and modern England (Dave Postles) materials for a taught course: texts from ballads and plays, extracts from court records, a short reading list

Radical women in the English Revolution (Modern History Sourcebook) extracts from the Women's petition (1649) and Mary Cary, The New Jerusalem's Glory (1656)

'Kiss me with the kisses of his lips': blurred masculinity in early modern spirituality (Tom Webster) an e-seminar paper at the Winthrop Papers web site

Bridget Cooke and the art of godly female self-advancement (Michael Winship) Winthrop Papers e-seminar

Women and Methodism Women and the Wesleys

British Quaker Women (Tina Helfrich) covering the activities and writings of women in the Quaker movement from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries

Homosexuality in Eighteenth-century England (Rictor Norton) an online sourcebook (with essay overview), includes trial reports, newspaper accounts etc with short comments/introductions, mainly from London

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