1. Introduction: women and property -- Pt. I. Politics, economy and kinship. 2. The lives of four women: introducing property and politics. 3. Women and inheritance -- Pt. II. The dower. 4. The dower: marriage, gender and social stratification. 5. Marriage: the prompt dower. 6. Repudiation and widowhood: the deferred dower -- Pt. III. Paid labour and property. 7. Poverty, wage labour and property. 8. Gender and garment production. 9. Education, professional work and property. 10. Women and property revisited
