Cover; Dedication; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Domestic Violence; Chapter 2 Sexual Abuse; Chapter 3 Libel & Slander; Chapter 4 Abduction & Clandestine Marriage; Chapter 5 The Smart of the Lash; Chapter 6 Burned Alive; Chapter 7 An Exiled World; Chapter 8 At the Mercy of the Mob; Chapter 9 Locked in the Cage; Chapter 10 Hot Iron & Cold Steel; Chapter 11 Hanged by the 'Bloody Code'; Chapter 12 Male Impersonators & Female Actors; Chapter 13 Seen But Not Heard; Chapter 14 Gracing the Stool; Plate section; Chapter 15 Religious Belief: Persecution & Punishment
Chapter 16 Suffer a WitchChapter 17 Military Wives & Camp Followers; Chapter 18 The Morality Police; Chapter 19 The 'Whipping Toms'; Chapter 20 Growing Distaste & Abolition; Appendix A 'How the Women went from Dover' 1662 -- John Greenleaf Whittier; Appendix B 'The Ducking Stool' 1780 -- Benjamin West; Appendix C Trial of Eleanor Beare 1732 -- Sentenced to be Pilloried & Imprisoned; Appendix D Trial of Elizabeth Cammell 1783 -- Sentenced to be Severely Whipped & Hard Labour; Appendix E Tariff of Corporal Punishments -- Female Apprentices in Jamaica -- 1858
Appendix F Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century Slang -- Women's Bodies, Characters & ProfessionsAppendix G Women Burned at the Stake 1721-1789; Appendix H A Woman's Tyburn 'Hanging Day'; Appendix I Benefit of Clergy; Appendix J Relative Value of Money; Bibliography; Notes; Index; Back Cover
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 17, 2019)
