Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PERMISSIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- TEXTUAL AND EDITORIAL POLICY -- 1 THEOLOGY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BIBLE -- Genesis -- Leviticus -- Proverbs -- 1 Corinthians -- Galatians -- Ephesians -- 1 Timothy -- John Calvin, Sermons -- The first examination of Ann Askew -- Certain sermons or homilies -- Church of England, Canons -- Thomas Becon, Catechism -- SERMONS -- Thomas Adams, Meditations upon the creed -- William Whately, A bride bush -- WOMEN PREACHING -- Thomas Edwards, Gangraena -- Margaret Fell Fox, Women's preaching justified -- 2 PHYSIOLOGY -- INTRODUCTION -- ARISTOTLE -- The history of animals -- The generation of animals -- 2 Galen, On the usefulness of the parts of the body -- GYNACEA -- Martin Akakia, On women's illnesses -- Ludovic Mercatus, On the common conditions of women -- Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia -- uckling their children... -- Nicholas Fontanus, The woman's doctor -- The complete midwife's practice enlarged -- 3 CONDUCT -- INTRODUCTION -- Juan Luis Vives, The instruction of a Christian woman -- THE DEBATE ON DRESS -- Philip Stubbes, The anatomy of abuses -- John Rainoldes, The overthrow of stage plays -- John Williams, A sermon of apparell -- MARITAL CONDUCT BOOKS -- Robert Dod and John Cleaver, A godly form of household government -- Henry Smith, A preparative to marriage -- Richard Brathwait, The English gentlewoman -- BRIDES' DUTIES -- Samuel Rowlands, The bride -- William Gouge, Of domestical duties -- Of wives' particular duties -- Banabe Rich, My lady's looking glass -- William Vaughan, The golden grove -- Dorothy Leigh, The mother's blessing -- 4 SEXUALITY AND MOTHERHOOD -- INTRODUCTION -- Desiderius Erasmus, The woman in childbed -- Henry Bullinger, The Christian state of matrimony.

3 Eucharius Roesslin, The birth of mankind, otherwise named the woman's book -- Thomas Becon, The book of matrimony -- Elizabeth Grymestone, Miscelanea, meditations, memoratives -- Christopher Newstead, An apology for women: or women's defence -- Elizabeth Clinton, The Countess of Lincoln's nursery -- DEVOTIONAL ADVICE ON CHILDBIRTH -- Thomas Bentley, The monument of matrons -- Christopher Hooke, The childbirth -- Alexander Niccholes, A discourse of marriage and wiving -- Nicolas Culpeper, A directory for midwives -- Sarah Jinner, An Almanac -- Jane Sharp, The midwife's book -- Francesco Barbaro, Directions for love and marriage -- Aphra Behn, To the fair Clorinda -- 5 POLITICS AND LAW -- INTRODUCTION -- Aristotle, Politics -- Juan Luis Vives, Instruction of a Christian woman -- John Knox, The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of women -- John Aylmer, An harborow for faithful and true subjects -- otland... -- Thomas Smith, The commonwealth of England, and manner of government thereof -- James I, The true law of free monarchies -- Robert Pricke, The doctrine of superiority, and of subjection -- William Gouge, Of domestical duties -- William Perkins, Christian economy -- William Heale, An apology for women -- T.E., The law's resolution of women's rights -- Matthew Griffith, Bethel, or a form for families -- A true copy of the petition of the gentlewomen and tradesmen's wives -- Robert Filmer, Patriarcha, or the natural power of kings -- 6 EDUCATION -- INTRODUCTION -- Juan Luis Vives, Instruction of a Christian woman -- Desiderius Erasmus, Colloquy of the abbot and learned woman -- Richard Hyrde, Preface -- Thomas Becon, Catechism -- Thomas Salter, The mirror of modesty -- Richard Mulcaster, Positions -- Bartholomew Batty, The Christian man's closet -- Elizabeth Jocelyn, The mother's legacy to her unborn child.

Bathshua Makin, An essay to revive the ancient education of gentlewomen -- 7 WORK -- INTRODUCTION -- John Fitzherbert, The book of husbandry -- Thomas Tusser, A hundred good points of housewifery -- John Jones, The an and science of preserving body and soul -- Mary Ward, Letter to Pope Paul V -- Patrick Hannay, A happy husband -- John Taylor, The needle's excellency -- R. Garnet, The book of oaths, 1649 -- PREACHING WORK -- Sarah Cheevers and Katherine Evans, -- Joan Brooksop, An invitation of love -- Sarah Jinner, An almanac -- Jane Sharp, The midwife's book -- Mary Trye, Medicatrix, or the woman-physician -- Advice to the women and maidens of London -- 8 WRITING AND SPEAKING -- INTRODUCTION -- Baldassare Castiglione, The courtier -- Margaret Tyler, The mirror of princely deeds and knighthood -- Thomas Bentley, The monument of matrons -- Philip Stubbes, A crystal glass for Christian women -- Richard Brathwait, Essays upon the five senses -- Gervase Markham, The English housewife -- John Vicars, The schismatic sifted -- Dorothy Waugh, The lamb's defence against lies -- and give them warning... -- Eliza's Babes -- Sarah Jinner, An almanac -- Katherine Philips, Poems -- Aphra Behn, Preface to The Lucky Chance -- 9 PROTO-FEMINISMS -- INTRODUCTION -- Cornelius Agrippa, A treatise of the nobility and excellency of woman-kind -- Jane Anger her protection for women -- Aemilia Lanyer, Salve deus rex judaeorum -- Daniel Tuvil, Asylum veneris -- Rachel Speght, A mouzell for Melastomus -- William Austin, Haec homo -- Jane Owen, An antidote against purgatory -- To the supreme authority of England, the commons assembled in parliament -- Eliza's Babes -- Margaret Cavendish, The philosophical and physical opinions -- Poulain de la Barre, The woman as good as the man, of the equality of both sexes -- NOTES -- SELECT SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.