Women and Gender in Late Antiquity

• Arjava, A., Women and Law in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 1998). LTH.
• Burrus, V., Begotten, Not Made: Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity, Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture (Stanford, 2000). PN.DA.
• Burrus, V., The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography, Divinations: Rereading Late Antique Religion (Philadelphia, PA, 2008). PN.C.
• Clark, G., Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Lifestyles (Oxford, 1993). LTH.
• Cloke, G., This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, AD 350-450 (London, 1995). PN.YW.
• Coon, L., Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity (Philadelphia, PA, 1997). PN.YM.
• Cooper, K., ‘Gender and the Fall of Rome’, in P. Rousseau (ed.), A Companion to Late Antiquity, Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World (Oxford, 2007), pp. 187–200. LVL.
• Cooper, K., The Fall of the Roman Household (Cambridge, 2007). LVS.H. An important new study which makes changes in ‘the domestic sphere’—i.e. the Christianization of marriage and the family—central to the transformation of the later Roman world.
• Cooper, K., The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, MA, 1996). LIC.
• Elm, S., Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 1994). POWB.
• Fiorenza, E. S., 'Women in the Early Christian Movement', in C. P. Christ (ed.), Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion (San Francisco, CA, 1979). PN.YW.
• Goody, J., The Development of Family and Marriage in Europe (Cambridge, 1983), chps. 4-5. KVC3.
• Hastrup, K., 'The Semantics of Biology: Virginity', in S. Ardener (ed.), Defining Females: The Nature of Women in Society (London, 1978). KDQWD.
• Kitchen, J., Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography (Oxford, 1998). MSC.K.

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