Good wives

Preface

Introduction

Part One : Bathsheba ; The ways of her household ; Deputy households ; A friendly neighbor ; Pretty gentlewomen

Part two : Eve ; The serpent beguiled me ; Consort ; Travail ; Mother of all living

Part three : Jael ; Blessed above women ; Viragoes ; Captives ; Daughters of Zion

Afterword

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliographic essay

Index.