Contents:
  • Of Women, Snakes and Trees : The Bible / Deborah W. Rooke
  • The Talmud : A Tale of Two Bodies / Sarra Lev
  • Patriarchalism and the Qur'an / Asma Barlas
  • Citizens but Second Class : Women in Aristotle's Politics (384 to 322 B.C.E.) / Edith Hall
  • Augustine's The City of God (5th century A.D.) : Patriarchy, Pluralism, and the Creation of Man / Catherine Conybeare
  • Men, Women and Monsters : John Knox's First Blast of the Trumpet (1558) / Anne McLaren
  • Love and Order : William Gouge, Of Domesticall Duties (1622) / Karen Harvey
  • Filmer's Patriarcha (1680) : Absolute Power, Political Patriarchalism and Patriotic Language / Cesare Cuttica
  • Patriarchy, Primogeniture and Prescription : Algernon Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government (1698) / Jonathan Scott
  • Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) : Fathers and Conversational Friendship / J. K. Numao
  • "Nothing Pleases Like an Intire Subjection" : Mary Astell Reflects on the Politics of Marriage (1700) / Brett D. Wilson
  • Ants, Bees, Fathers, Sons : Pope's Essay on Man (1734) and the Natural History of Patriarchy / Paul Baines
  • Rousseau's Emile (1762) : The Patriarchal Family and the Education of the Republican Citizen / Sandrine Parageau
  • Patriarchy and Enlightenment in Immanuel Kant (1784) / Jordan Pascoe
  • In "Her Father's House" : Women as Property in Wollstonecraft's Mary (1788) / Michelle Faubert
  • Father Enfantin, the Saint-Simonians and the "Call to Woman" (1831) / Daniel Laqua
  • Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata (1889) / Charlotte Alston
  • Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (1890) as "Patriarchal Moment" / Arnold Weinstein
  • Account of a Fight against Paternal Authority : Franz Kafka's Letter to his Father (1919) / Oliver Jahraus
  • Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding (1932) : Patriarchy's Tragic Flaws / Federico Bonaddio
  • "His Peremptory Prick" : The Failure of the Phallic in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve (1977) / Ruth Charnock.