Judith MacKenzie Bennett is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, Emerita Professor of History and John R. Hubbard Chair in British History at the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

. Bennett writes and teaches about medieval

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, specifically focusing on gender, women's history, and rural peasants.

Career and research

Bennett studied at

Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. It is the oldest member of the h ...

in Massachusetts, before completing an MA and PhD in Medieval Studies at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

. She was awarded her doctorate in 1981. She subsequently worked at

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from 1981 to 2005, before moving to the University of Southern California. She has published extensively on the history of late medieval England, particularly on the history of women and feminist approaches to medieval history. She has authored and edited nine books and over 30 articles and chapters on medieval women, women's work, and feminist history, as well as a widely used medieval history text, ''Medieval Europe: A Short History'' (McGraw Hill). Her 1996 book ''Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600'' is still one of a few to look at the transition of brewing from women to men. In her influential 2006 book, ''History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism'', Bennett argued for the importance of feminist approaches to history and the role of ''longue durée'' perspectives in understanding the 'patriarchal equilibrium' that has defined the history of women's experiences over multiple historical periods. This 'patriarchal equilibrium' is characterised by Bennett as a lack of transformation in women's status in comparison to that of men, despite changes over time.

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*https://usc.academia.edu/JudithBennett {{DEFAULTSORT:Bennett, Judith MacKenzie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Feminist historians American women historians University of Southern California faculty Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America 21st-century American historians 21st-century American women writers Mount Holyoke College alumni Historians from California

Career and research

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