Part 1: Introduction: men, women, property, law, and custom
1. Gender, law, and material culture
Annette Caroline Cremer
2. Early modern political philosophy on rights of ownership
Amelie Stuart
Part 2: Gifts, symbolic values, and strategies
3. Landed property as marital gifts: women and landownership in fifteenth-century Norway
Susann Anett Pedersen
4. Married women's testaments: division and distribution of movable property in seventeenth-century Glasgow
Rebecca Mason
5. Hybrid legal cultures among the early modern Tyrolean nobility: marriage contracts and the symbolic value of assets
Siglinde Clementi
Part 3: Women's access to immobile property
6. Fenced in or out? Women and landownserhip in early modern southern Tyrol
Janine Maegraith
7. Women, land and usufruct in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire: a case study of Vidin and Antakya
Fatma Gül Karagöz
Part 4: Women, law and property in colonial contexts
8. In her own right: gender, slaveholding, and movable goods in colonial Jamaica
Christine Walker
9. Land, slaves, and honour: women's ownership and possession in colonial Brazil (Paraíba)
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
Part 5: Women and property in transitory zones
10. Women and movable goods in a maritime border economy in nineteenth-century Sicily (Aeolian Islands)
Ida Fazio
11. Stamp duty and the transformation of the dowry in nineteenth-century Greece
Evdoxios Doxiadis
12. Starting a married life: women and goods in the mid-nineteenth-century Romanian towns of Piteși and Câmpulung
Nicoleta Roman
Part 6: Synthesis
13. Movable goods and immovable property: interrelated perspectives
Margareth Lanzinger