In this collection of seven major essays (one of them published
here for the first time), Monica Green argues that a history of
women's healthcare in medieval western Europe has not yet been
written because it cannot yet be written - the vast majority of
texts relating to women's healthcare have never been edited or
studied. Using the insights of women's history and gender studies,
Green shows how historians need to peel off the layers of unfounded
assumption and stereotype that have characterized the little work
that has been done on medieval women's healthcare. Seen in their
original contexts, medieval gynecological texts raise questions of
women's activity as healthcare providers and recipients, as well as
questions of how the sexual division of labor, literacy, and
professionalization functioned in the production and use of medical
knowledge on the female body. An appendix lists all known medieval
gynecological texts in Latin and the western European vernacular
languages.
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