| Table des matières |
| | 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 | 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 |
