Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-173) and index.
Contents:
Pt. I. Analysis. Introduction: Gender Relations -- 1. Bodies And Minds -- Sexual difference -- The social body -- Sex -- Reproduction -- Mind and soul -- Spirituality -- 2. Patriarchal Households -- The shape of the household -- The nature of marriage -- Parenthood -- Domestic space -- Divisions of labour -- Economic roles -- Service and apprenticeship -- The single -- 3. Communities -- The parish -- Authority -- Poverty -- Crime and the law -- Popular rituals -- Reputation -- Friendship -- 4.Polity -- Languages of politics -- Monarchy -- Participation -- Resistance -- The English Revolution -- Social contract and sexual contract -- Conclusion: Assessment Pt. II. Documents. 1. Genesis 2:18-25 -- 2. Jane Anger -- 3. Levinus Lemnius -- 4. Jane Sharp -- 5. Archbishop Laud's dream -- 6. Katherine Austen -- 7.Frank North -- 8.Jane Martindale -- 9.James I and Robert Carr -- 10. Mrs Jane Ratcliffe -- 11. Mawdlin Gawen -- 12. Hic Mulier -- 13. A joke -- 14. Edward Lacy and Elizabeth Inkberrow -- 15. Leonard Wheatcroft -- 16. Elizabeth Browne -- 17. The Country Justice -- 18. James I and George Villiers 19. Leo Africanus -- 20. Sarah Jinner -- 21. Samuel Pepys -- 22. Aristotle's Masterpiece -- 23. The eagle stone -- 24. Ralph Josselin -- 25. Isabella Twysden -- 26. Jane Minors -- 27. Bathsua Makin -- 28. An Act for the Advancement of True Religion and for the Abolishment of the Contrary, 1543 -- 29. 1 Timothy 2:9-15 -- 30. Rose Hickman -- 31. Alice Driver -- 32. Alice Thornton -- 33. The Infanticide Act -- 34. Dod and Cleaver on marriage -- 35. Homily of the state of matrimony -- 36. Dod and Cleaver on servants -- 37. William Gouge 38. Maria Thynne -- 39. Elizabeth Freke's remembrances -- 40. Anne and James Young -- 41. The Weavers' Guild -- 42. The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights -- 43. A Treatise of Testaments -- 44. Edward Barlow -- 45. The Statute of Artificers -- 46. Searchers of the dead -- 47. Norwich census of the poor -- 48. Punishing bastard getters -- 49. Elizabeth Bromley vs. Edith Griffyn -- 50. Dod and Cleaver on honesty -- 51. Antony Ratcliff -- 52. William Stout -- 53. Nehemiah Wallington -- 54. Nicholas Marden and friends -- 55. Mercurius Democritus -- 56. Sir Thomas Smith 57. Lucy Hutchinson -- 58. Reinforcing Queenly Power -- 59. Reasons for crowning the Prince and Princess of Orange jointly -- 60. Edward Coke on elections -- 61. The election at Ipswich 1640 -- 62. Lambard on the assembly of women -- 63. Alice Baine and Dorothy Dawson -- 64. John Peatch -- 65. Sarah Walker -- 66. Brilliana Harley to her husband -- 67. 1 Corinthians 1:27-29 -- 68. Abiezer Coppe -- 69. Petition of the gentlewomen and tradesmen's wives -- 70. The parliament scout -- 71. A parliament of women.
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