Legends of Good Women: Hagiography and Women's Intervention in Late Medieval Literature (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1999, 326 pp.).

'Hagiography's ethical agenda was explicitly gendered. The legends of female saints were considered especially appropriate for female audiences. Vernacular hagiography thus created as audience defined by sex... it underwrites the startling explorations of feminine spirituality and literary agences in Osbern Bokenham's Legends of Holy Women'.