Gender

http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/literature/men.html
Features links and other information concerning women as readers of literature in Elizabethan England: “The audience of literate women in Shakespeare's time was not great, but it was large enough to make it worth a printer's time to publish books especially for them: books on cookery, household medicine, religious attitudes, and correct behaviour*.”

http://www.folger.edu/public/exhibit/Housewives/housewif.htm
“Ridding her house of "troublesome bugs" was part of the housewife's daily ritual of cleaning. Many books offered sophisticated means of killing pests."

http://eserver.org/emc/1-1/banksholder.html
An essay entitled Effeminate Dayes' by Carol Banks & Graham Holderness.  Essay examines femine and masculine gender roles.

http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/10.html
A few pages with general information about gender relations.


Illustration from Charles Sorel's The Extravagant Sheperd (London, 1654): teeth like pearls, eyes that sparkle like the sun, eyebrows arched like Cupid's bow, cheeks a-bloom with roses, and breasts like little globes or, as one writer put it, "little worlds of beauty." (Link)