Part 1. Women in a patronage culture -- Chapter 1: The family -- Chapter 2: The courts and the law -- Part 2. Unmarried daughters -- Chapter 3: A ripened fig: age at first marriage -- Chapter 4: The economics of female adolescence -- Chapter 5: A virgin in her father's house: modesty, mobility, and social control -- Part 3. Becoming a wife -- Chapter 6: Marriage choices -- Chapter 7: Defining marriage: legal agreements and their uses -- Chapter 8: In the marital household