Francesca Canadé Sautman

Francesca Canadé Sautman is professor of French studies and history at Hunter College and at the Graduate Center of CUNY (City University of New York). Her publications, notably La Religion du quotidien (1995), mostly address gender, material culture, dress, popular culture, margins, and systems of exclusion in the medieval and early modern periods. She was associate editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (2007), and co-editor of Same-Sex Love and Desire among Women in the Middle Ages (2001) and Telling Tales: Medieval Narratives and the Folk Tradition (1998). She is currently completing a book on women’s veils and head coverings in Burgundy and Flanders from 1430 to 1530.