目錄 |
| Publisher's acknowledgements | xi |
| Chronology | xii |
| Who's who | xiv |
| Glossary | xvi |
pt. ONE | ANALYSIS | 1 |
| Introduction: Gender Relations | 3 |
1. | Bodies And Minds | 6 |
| Sexual difference | 6 |
| The social body | 10 |
| Sex | 15 |
| Reproduction | 21 |
| Mind and soul | 24 |
| Spirituality | 26 |
2. | Patriarchal Households | 29 |
| The shape of the household | 30 |
| The nature of marriage | 32 |
| Parenthood | 38 |
| Domestic space | 39 |
| Divisions of labour | 41 |
| Economic roles | 45 |
| Service and apprenticeship | 46 |
| The single | 48 |
3. | Communities | 51 |
| The parish | 51 |
| Authority | 53 |
| Poverty | 55 |
| Crime and the law | 56 |
| Popular rituals | 60 |
| Reputation | 62 |
| Friendship | 64 |
4. | Polity | 67 |
| Languages of politics | 67 |
| Monarchy | 69 |
| Participation | 71 |
| Resistance | 73 |
| The English Revolution | 76 |
| Social contract and sexual contract | 80 |
| Conclusion: Assessment | 83 |
pt. TWO | DOCUMENTS | 85 |
1. | Genesis 2:18-25 | 86 |
2. | Jane Anger | 86 |
3. | Levinus Lemnius | 87 |
4. | Jane Sharp | 88 |
5. | Archbishop Laud's dream | 89 |
6. | Katherine Austen | 90 |
7. | Frank North | 91 |
8. | Jane Martindale | 92 |
9. | James I and Robert Carr | 93 |
10. | Mrs Jane Ratcliffe | 94 |
11. | Mawdlin Gawen | 95 |
12. | Hic Mulier | 96 |
13. | A joke | 98 |
14. | Edward Lacy and Elizabeth Inkberrow | 98 |
15. | Leonard Wheatcroft | 99 |
16. | Elizabeth Browne | 100 |
17. | The Country Justice | 100 |
18. | James I and George Villiers | 102 |
19. | Leo Africanus | 103 |
20. | Sarah Jinner | 105 |
21. | Samuel Pepys | 107 |
22. | Aristotle's Masterpiece | 107 |
23. | The eagle stone | 109 |
24. | Ralph Josselin | 109 |
25. | Isabella Twysden | 110 |
26. | Jane Minors | 110 |
27. | Bathsua Makin | 111 |
28. | An Act for the Advancement of True Religion and for the Abolishment of the Contrary, 1543 | 113 |
29. | 1 Timothy 2:9-15 | 114 |
30. | Rose Hickman | 114 |
31. | Alice Driver | 115 |
32. | Alice Thornton | 117 |
33. | The Infanticide Act | 117 |
34. | Dod and Cleaver on marriage | 118 |
35. | Homily of the state of matrimony | 119 |
36. | Dod and Cleaver on servants | 122 |
37. | William Gouge | 123 |
38. | Maria Thynne | 124 |
39. | Elizabeth Freke's remembrances | 126 |
40. | Anne and James Young | 127 |
41. | The Weavers' Guild | 130 |
42. | The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights | ="top" align="right">131 |
43. | A Treatise of Testaments | 131 |
44. | Edward Barlow | 133 |
45. | The Statute of Artificers | 135 |
46. | Searchers of the dead | 136 |
47. | Norwich census of the poor | 137 |
48. | Punishing bastard getters | 139 |
49. | Elizabeth Bromley vs. Edith Griffyn | 140 |
50. | Dod and Cleaver on honesty | 140 |
51. | Antony Ratcliff | 141 |
52. | William Stout | 142 |
53. | Nehemiah Wallington | 143 |
54. | Nicholas Marden and friends | 144 |
55. | Mercurius Democritus | 144 |
56. | Sir Thomas Smith | 145 |
57. | Lucy Hutchinson | 146 |
58. | Reinforcing Queenly Power | 147 |
59. | Reasons for crowning the Prince and Princess of Orange jointly | 147 |
60. | Edward Coke on elections | 148 |
61. | The election at Ipswich 1640 | 149 |
62. | Lambard on the assembly of women | 149 |
63. | Alice Baine and Dorothy Dawson | 150 |
64. | John Peatch | 151 |
65. | Sarah Walker | 152 |
66. | Brilliana Harley to her husband | 152 |
67. | 1 Corinthians 1:27-29 | 154 |
68. | Abiezer Coppe | 154 |
69. | Petition of the gentlewomen and tradesmen's wives | 155 |
70. | The parliament scout | 159 |
71. | A parliament of women | 160 |
| Guide To Further Reading | 161 |
| References | 171 |
| Index | 174 |