Women in early modern England, 1550-1720

1. Contexts. Medical understandings of woman's body ; Religious teachings ; The law and its administration ; Citizenship ; Popular notions ; Stereotypes

2. Childhood and adolescence. Early years ; Service ; Courtship

3. Adult life. Marriage ; Maternity ; Single women ; Widowhood ; Old age ; Death

4. Female culture. Space ; Speech ; Material culture ; The practice of piety ; Female friendship ; Passionate friends and lesbian relationships ; Female consciousness and feminism

5. The makeshift economy of poor women. Work and gender ; Poverty ; Making a living ; Indigence and destitution

6. Occupational identities and social roles. Running a household ; Professional and skilled work: medical, educational, and cultural ; Crafts, trades, and multiple occupations ; Royal, civic, and institutional employment ; Public housewifery ; Changes over the period, 1550-1720

7. Politics. Female monarchs ; Aristocratic women: queens consort, female courtiers, and matriarchs ; Popular politics before 1640 ; Women and revolution, 1640-1660 ; Women in political movements, 1660-1720.