The title of this book translates as ‘Don't stop singing’: female witnesses to the Swiss Reformation. It is a collection of German-language essays based on papers given at a conference held in Zurich in August 2014 that was jointly sponsored by the Theological Faculty of the University of Zurich and the Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich. Like many volumes that stem from conference proceedings, the presentation is a bit uneven and some of the essays overlap in content. There are serious academic contributions by senior scholars, such as that of Christine Christ-von Wedel, who argues that the writings of Desiderius Erasmus reveal that he had a new vision of the character and status of women that was more elevated than the traditional view of their being inferior to men; Susan C. Karant-Nunn, who uses evidence from social history to demonstrate that the Reformation did not do very much to change, and even at times reinforced, this traditional, inferior view; and Helmut Puff, who analyses ideas of masculinity and patriarchy during the Reformation. Other essays contain mostly biographical sketches of women in the Swiss and the Strasbourg Reformations, some whose names will be familiar to readers – Anna Adlischwyler Bullinger, Katharina Schütz Zell and Marie Dentière – and others who may not – Katharina von Zimmern, the last abbess of the Zurich Fraumünster; Margaret Hottinger, a Zurich Anabaptist who was imprisoned in the 1520s; and Margaretha Prüss, a printer and publisher in Strasbourg. Some of these sketches contain new information and analyses, but the reader does get the impression that sources are few and that there is a limit to what can be learned about many of these women. There are, nevertheless, some overarching themes to the volume that are worth emphasising and repeating. The old view that the Reformation brought about a more modern, egalitarian view of women and an improvement of their situation in society clearly is no longer tenable; the evidence is much more mixed. Yet, for some of these women, Reformation theology, especially Luther's idea of the ‘priesthood of all believers’, clearly was liberating. Lastly, the Reformation presented many women with stark and difficult choices. Whether it was the decision to shut down a centuries-old abbey in Zurich and to join the secular world, to leave one's homeland in pursuit of the true faith, or to publish radical religious material that could lead to arrest and punishment by city authorities, many women in Switzerland and Germany faced very real, life-altering choices as a consequence of the Reformation. To the extent that we can, historians have a duty to record, analyse and provide witness to these choices.