Women and Work in Precolonial India: A Reader/ edited by Vijaya Ramaswamy

Section I: Women and the Household: Canonical Prescriptions and Their Feminist Critique --
Chapter 1: The Daily Duties of Women --
Chapter 2: Position and Status of Women in the Upaniṣads --
Chapter 3: Woman in the Household --
Chapter 4: Economic Rights of Ancient Indian Women --
Chapter 5: Dynamics of Women's Work in the Śāstric Sources: Household and Beyond --
Chapter 6: Tracking Economic Transitions: Tamil Women from Tribe to Caste and Changing Production Roles --
Chapter 7: The Question of Women's 'Agency': Women, Work and Domesticity in Early Textual Traditions

Section II: Women and Work in Early Textual Traditions --
Chapter 8: The Woman Worker --
Chapter 9: Of Dasas and Karmakaras: Servile Labour in Ancient India --
Chapter 10: Women and Work in Kautilīya's Arthaśāstra

Section III: Women and Economic Resources: Women's Property Rights --
Chapter 11: Proprietary Rights during Coverture --
Chapter 12: Proprietary Rights: Inheritance and Partition --
Chapter 13: The Legal Status of Women: Their Right of Inheritance --
Chapter 14: Property Rights of Women in Ancient India --
Chapter 15: Turmeric Land: Women's Property Rights in Tamil Society since Early Medieval Times --
Chapter 16: Property Rights of Women in Medieval Andhra

Section IV: Contextualising Women's Work in the Public Domain --
Chapter 17: State of the Field: Perspectives on Women and Work in Early South India --
Chapter 18: Women's Profession in Medieval Andhra --
Chapter 19: Temple Women and Work in Medieval Kēraḷam --
Chapter 20: Gender, Caste and Labour: Ideological and Material Structure of Widowhood --
Chapter 21: Work and Gender in Mughal India

Section V: Devaradiya: Hand-maidens of God or Sex-workers? --
Chapter 22: Courtesans --
Chapter 23: Temple Women as Temple Servants --
Chapter 24 In the Business of Kama: Prostitution in the Classical Sanskrit Literature from the Seventh to the Thirteenth Centuries --
Prostitution in Ancient India.