Table of Contents:
  • Women and education / Kenneth Charlton
  • Religion and the construction of the feminine / Diane Willen
  • Women, property and law / Tim Stretton
  • Women and work / Sara H. Mendelson
  • Women and writing / Margaret J.M. Ezell
  • Isabella Whitney, A sweet nosegay / Patricia Brace
  • Mary Sidney, countess of Pembroke, Psalmes / Debra K. Rienstra
  • Aemilia Lanyer, Salve deus rex judaeorum / Susanne Woods
  • Elizabeth Cary, The tragedy of Mariam and history / Elaine Beilin
  • Mary Wroth, The countess of Montgomery's Urania / Naomi J. Miller
  • Margaret Cavendish, A true relation of my birth, breeding and life / Gweno Williams
  • Anna Trapnel, Anna Trapnel's report and plea / Hilary Hinds
  • Katherine Philips, Poems / Elizabeth H. Hageman
  • Aphra Behn, The rover, part one / Anita Pacheco
  • Mary Astell, critic of the marriage contract/social contract analogue / Patricia Springborg
  • Autobiography / Sheila Ottway
  • Defences of women / Frances Teague, Rebecca De Haas
  • Prophecy / Elaine Hobby
  • Women's poetry 1550-1700 : 'not unfit to be read' / Bronwen Price
  • Prose fiction / Paul Salzman
  • Drama / Sophie Tomlinson
  • The work of women in the age of electronic reproduction : the canon, early modern women writers and the postmodern reader / Melinda Alliker Rabb
  • Feminist historiography / Margo Hendricks.