Books
Sarah A. Bendall, Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body, and Women in Early Modern England (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Preview available via Google Books.
Sarah A. Bendall and Serena Dyer, eds., Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe: Bodies, Gender, and Material Culture (Amsterdam University Press, 2024)
Foreword and Introduction available here.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Sarah A. Bendall, ‘The Soap-makers and the Queen: The Rhetoric of Maternalism in the “Oil Affairs” of late Sixteenth-Century England’, in Queens, Queenship and Natural Resource Management in Premodern Europe, 1400-1800, edited by Susan Broomhall and Clare Davidson (Routledge, 2025), 270-291.
Sarah A. Bendall, ‘Whalebone and Fashion in Seventeenth-Century England: Changing Consumer Culture, Trade and Innovation’, in Everyday Fashion: Interpreting British Clothing Since 1600, eds. Bethan Bide, Jade Halbert and Liz Tregenza (Bloomsbury Academic: 2023), 21-35.
Sarah A. Bendall, ‘The queens’ dressmakers: women’s work and the clothing trades in late seventeenth-century London‘, Women’s History Review 32, 3 (2023): 389-414.
Sarah A. Bendall, ‘Female Personifications and Masculine Forms: Gender, Armour and Allegory in the Habsburg-Valois Conflicts of sixteenth-Century Europe’, Gender & History 35, 1 (2023): 42-67.
Sarah A. Bendall, ‘Whalebone and the Wardrobe of Elizabeth I: Whaling and the Construction of Aristocratic Fashions in Sixteenth-Century Europe‘, Apparence(s): Histoire et Culture du Paraître, Special Issue on ‘Modes Animales’, edited by Ariane Fennetaux and Gabriele Mentges (2022). https://doi.org/10.4000/apparences.3653
Sarah A. Bendall, ‘Adorning Masculinities? The Commissioning and Wearing of Hat Badges during the Habsburg-Valois Italian Wars‘, Sixteenth Century Journal 52, 3 (2021): 539-70.
Sarah A. Bendall, ‘Women’s Dress and the Demise of the Tailoring Monopoly: Farthingale-makers, body-makers and the changing textile marketplace of seventeenth-century London’, Textile History, 52, 1-2 (2021): 23-55. DOI: 10.1080/00404969.2021.1913470
Sarah A. Bendall, ‘The case of the “french vardinggale”: A Methodological Approach to Reconstructing and Understanding Ephemeral Garments’, in Fashion Theory, Special Issue on ‘The Making Turn’, edited by Peter McNeil and Melissa Bellanta 23, 3 (2019): 363-399.
Sarah A. Bendall, ‘”Take Measure of your Wide and Flaunting Garments”: The Farthingale, Gender and the Consumption of Space in Elizabethan and Jacobean England’, Renaissance Studies 33, 5 (2019): 712-737.
Sarah Anne Bendall, ‘To Write a Distick upon It: Busks and the Language of Courtship and Sexual Desire in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England’, in Gender & History 26, 2 (2014): 199–222.
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