Part 1. "Our Mothers' Maids": Nurture and narrative
Telling tales: Locating female nurture and narrative in The Faerie Queene / Jacqueline T. Miller
Female orality and the healing arts in Spenser's Mother Hubberds Tale / Kate Giglio
Urania's example: The female storyteller in early modern English romance / Julie A. Eckerle
"Before woomen were readers": How John Aubrey Wrote female oral history / Henk Dragstra
Part 2. Spinsters, knitters and the uses of oral traditions
Fractious: Teenage girls' tales in and out of Shakespeare / Diane Purkiss
Robber bridegrooms and devoured brides: The influence of folktales on Spenser's Busirane and Isis Church episodes / Marianne Micros
"I'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience": The Curtain Lecture and Shakespeare's Othello / LaRue Love Sloan
Free and bound maids: Women's work songs and industrial change in the age of Shakespeare / Fiona McNeill
Gender at work in the cries of London / Natasha Korda
Part 3. Oral traditions and masculinity
Pocky Queans and horned knaves: Gender stereotypes in libelous poems / C.E. McGee
"When an Old Ballad is Plainly Sung": musical lyrics in the plays of Margaret and William Cavendish / James Fitzmaurice
"My manly shape, hath yet a woman's minde": The fairy escape from gender-role rules in The Maid's Metamorphosis / Regina Buccola
"Her very phrases": Exploiting the metaphysics of presence in Twelfth Night / Eric Mason
Clamorous voices, incontinent fictions: Orality, oratory and gender in William Baldwin's Beware the Cat / Clare R. Kinney.
