English aristocratic women, 1450-1550: marriage and family, property and careers

1. Structures of Patriarchy

2. Daughters: Wives in the Making

3. The Arrangement of Marriage

4. Wives: Partnership and Patriarchy

5. Single Women and Compulsory Marriage

6. Motherhood: Bearing and Promoting the Next Generation

7. Widows: Women of Property and Custodians of Their Families' Futures

8. Beyond the Household: Family and Friends, Patronage and Power

9. Their Brilliant Careers: Aristocratic Women at the Yorkist and Early Tudor Court.