Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Rivkah bat Meir -- The Lives of Jewish Women in the Early Modern Era -- Prague at the Time of Rivkah bat Meir -- Origins and Family -- Rivkah bat Meir in the Tradition of Female Transfer of Knowledge -- From Teacher to Writer -- Meneket Rivkah -- Authorship and Provenance -- Prints -- Dissemination and Reception -- Structure -- The Literary Style: Between Morality Book and Homilitic Work -- The Homelitic Style -- Female Rhetorics -- The Exegetic Style -- Sources and Their Editing -- The Discourse of the Morality Books -- Feminizing Exegesis -- Ideals of Conduct and Social Practices -- Female Addresses -- General Moral Ideals of Conduct -- The Woman's Ideals of Conduct -- Ideals of Conduct toward the Husband -- Ideals of Conduct toward Parents and In-Laws -- Ideals of Conduct in Child Education -- Ideals of Conduct toward House Staff and Boarders -- Summary -- On Research -- Meneket Rivkah in Research: A Case Study of Women Written Out of History -- Old Yiddish Moral Literature in Research -- Notes to the Introduction -- Meneket Rivkah -- Notes on the Transliteration, Translation, Edition of the Yiddish Text, and Yiddish Index -- List of Abbreviations -- Translation and Commentary -- Notes to Translation of Meneket Rivkah -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Bibliography -- Scriptural Index -- Yiddish Subject Index -- Subject Index.