Philippa Gregory is mostly known for historical fiction about women, but I just ran across this, which interests me more:
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
By Phlippa Gregory
Harper
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/normal-women-philippa-gregory?variant=41066447437858
The bestselling, prolific historical novelist presents “a huge book about women.”
Gregory brings her extensive knowledge of women in society over the centuries to a vast sociological study of the lives of “regular” women throughout the past 900 years. A tour de force of research, the book chronicles the role of women in British society by era, starting with William the Conqueror’s Domesday Book, commissioned in 1086, up until 1994.
A highly instructive, exhaustive study that reveals the realities behind “ideal” or “inferior” designations of women.
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/philippa-gregory/normal-women-nine-hundred-years/