Analyses & Commentary

race, Orcs, Haradrim, Easterlings
women, missing entwives, scarce dwarvish women, elven queens, Valier, and others
Eowyn
Galadriel, Celebrían, Arwen, Nimrodel, Mithrellas, Elwing
Varda, Yavanna, Nienna, Este, Vaire, Vana, Nessa

Bibliographies

a draft list; haven't read this; not sure of actual content & basing just on title

Bigger, Andreas. "Love Song of the Dark Lord: Some Musings on the Reception of Tolkien in an Indian Context," in Root and Branch, ed. Honegger, 165-179
Craig, David M. "’Queer Lodgings’: gender and sexuality in The Lord of the Rings." Mallorn 35 (1997): 11-18.
Doughan, David. "An Ethnically Cleansed Faëry?" Tolkien and the Matter of Britain." Mallorn 32 (1995): 21-24.
Doughan, David. "Tolkien, Sayers, Sex and Gender," in Proceedings of the J. R. R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, ed. Reynolds and GoodKnight, 356-59.
Fenwick, Mac. "Breastplates of Silk: Homeric Women in The Lord of the Rings." Mythlore 21 (1996): 17-23, 50.
Fredrick, Candice and Sam McBride. Women Among the Inklings: Gender, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001.
Hopkins, Lisa. "Female Authority Figures in the Works of Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams," in Proceedings of the J. R. R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, ed. Reynolds and GoodKnight, 364-66.
Lewis, Alex and Elizabeth Currie. The Uncharted Realms of Tolkien. Wimbledon: Medea Publishing, 2002. Includes three chapters on the "Realms of Gender".
Ringel, Faye. "Woman Fantasists: In the Shadow of the Ring," in J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of Middle-Earth, ed. George Clark and Daniel Timmons. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000. (pp. 159-71).