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).

2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-247
Author(s):  
Kim Marie Phillips
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Black Death ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Medieval Women ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Oxford University Press

Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex Differences, but Were Afraid to Be Perceived as Politically Incorrect: Brain Gender, by M. Hines. 2004. New York: Oxford University Press. 307 pp., $49.50.

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1026-1027
Author(s):  
Jeannette McGlone
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Oxford University Press

Hines finds it impossible to make distinctions between the terms “sex” and “gender,” hence their refreshing, non-political interchangeability in her new book. After examining hormonal and brain-based data, Hines concludes that science cannot yet inform us which differences are determined biologically, socially, and/or both.

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