General overview articles:

• Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages: No More Fairytales – https://www.publicmedievalist.com/no-more-fairy-tales/
• What was life like for women in the Middle Ages? – https://www.getty.edu/news/what-was-life-like-for-women-in-the-middle-ages/
• Tropes of Women in the Middle Ages – https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/women-in-medieval-literature-and-society/

General Overview Books:

• A Medieval Woman’s Companion by Susan Signe Morrison (nice overview that highlights various women in Western Europe from 300-1500 CE)
• Medieval Lives by Terry Jones and Alan Ereira (a humorous overview of life in Medieval England)
• Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook edited by Emilie Amt (collection of primary sources about the everyday lives of women in Medieval Europe, based on public and private records and archeological evidence)
• The Middle Ages: A Graphic History by Eleanor Janega and Neil Max Emmanuel (a history of the Middle Ages in comic book form!)
• Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists by Mikki Kendall and A. D’Amico (a graphic history of women’s fight for their rights, from antiquity to the modern era)

Collections of women’s writing in the Middle Ages

• Internet History Sourcebook: Women in the Middle Ages – https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/women/womensbook.asp#Medieval%20Europe
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Sex and Gender – https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook1v.asp

More specialized/academic, but still interesting books

• Mothers, Mystics and Merrymakers: Medieval Women Pilgrims by Sarah Hopper (a study on which women went on pilgrimage, why, and what effect they had on society)
• Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children edited by Carey Fleiner and Elena Woodacre (a look at different queens/mothers of royal dynasties in the Middle Ages, what power these women had, and their relationship with their ruling children)