6 best-selling medieval books like The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

By: Eleanor Janega

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited h…

If you liked the medieval plot in The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

1. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient soci… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens

2. The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe

By: None

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Hardcover

In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found aban… read more

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3. A Curious History of Sex

By: Kate Lister

4.17

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throug… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Vulvas aren’t dainty. They can eat a penis and push out a baby."

-Kate Lister, A Curious History of Sex

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4. Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

By: Jenni Nuttall

3.82

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language--and what we can l… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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5. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

By: Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

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6. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

By: Shelley Puhak

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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7. Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale

By: Kate Lister

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Authored by one of the most original contemporary thinkers on the subject, this book is an enlighte… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • gender and sexuality
  • audiobook
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8. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

By: Natalie Haynes

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

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9. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

By: Emma Southon

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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10. Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior

By: Catherine Hanley

4.20

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown—the f… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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11. Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I

By: Kelcey Wilson-Lee

4.13

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this … read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
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12. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

By: Anna Bogutskaya

3.72

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

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13. Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

By: Ramie Targoff

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shak… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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14. Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi

By: Sarah Clegg

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The history of a demonic tradition that was stolen from women – and then won back again. Demonic… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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15. The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

By: Eleanor Janega

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited h… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Janega's The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society book and Eleanor Janega's The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • gender
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • medieval
  • gender and sexuality
  • audiobook
Cover of A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes by Anthony Bale

16. A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

By: Anthony Bale

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to t… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
"travel opens the mind in unpredictable ways"

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

"Jerusalem is a city of unfinished projects."

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

"Travel forms communities, but not always harmoniously."

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

"Holy ground can look startlingly ordinary, especially when one’s standing on it."

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

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17. How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity

By: Jill Burke

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics *A Waterstones Best Book o… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
Cover of The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages by Katherine Harvey

18. The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

By: Katherine Harvey

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people.   T… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • gender and sexuality
  • audiobook
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19. Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

By: Kathleen DuVal

4.46

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping history of the power of Indigenous North America from ancient cities to fights for sover… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

8 Top womens books like The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

Transform Your Habits

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

2.83

Transform Your Habits

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

Jenni Nuttall

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale

Kate Lister

4.18

Transform Your Habits

A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

Emma Southon

4.23

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18 Best history books like Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I by Kelcey Wilson-Lee

Transform Your Habits

Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe

Nancy Goldstone

4.00

Transform Your Habits

House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown

Nathen Amin

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation

Ian Mortimer

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

John Guy

4.16

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