ABSTRACT
The flowering of research into early modern women’s history began in earnest in the later 1970s, and it is fair to say that the four-page bibliography for Joyce Irwin’s essay ‘Society and the Sexes’, printed in Steven Ozment’s 1982 Guide to Reformation Research, referenced pretty much everything that had been written to that point about gender and the Reformation. 1 Given the relative youth of this field, our inquiries into history and gender are just beginning. The expansion of what we do know, however, has been impressive given the short time involved.
