Published at the same time as the series’ Feminist Moments, this volume takes as its focus “Patriarchal Moments,” though those familiar with the former volume will find significant overlap both in the themes discussed and even in some of the texts treated: for example, Mary Astell’s Reflections on Marriage (1700) is the subject of chapters in both works and “proto-feminist” (p.6) Mary Wollstonecraft earns essays in each. Part of the reason for the overlap between these two volumes is the broad definition of “patriarchal moment” that is employed in this work. The editors take as their remit key texts in which patriarchal power (a “concept of power implying a fatherly male domination of society,” p.1) is contested or renegotiated in some way. While, in the majority of texts chosen for study, this renegotiation amounts to the reaffirmation or expansion of patriarchal power structures (for example, Deborah W. Rooke’s analysis of biblical passages in the opening chapter, which traces “the increasingly patriarchal trajectory of an already patriarchal tradition,” p.16), a significant proportion of the essays in the latter half of the volume describe challenges to patriarchal attitudes. As well as the essays on Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft, the final six essays in this chronologically-ordered1 book treat texts which are described as subverting patriarchal norms, and so seem to have as great a claim to inclusion in the Feminist Moments volume as in the Patriarchal Moments volume. The upside of this is that Patriarchal Moments would work as a standalone teaching text, introducing students to a variety of texts which both support and challenge patriarchal power structures. However, as this book is explicitly intended as a complement to the Feminist Moments volume, one wonders whether it might have been more valuable to include some more recent texts which show that support for traditional patriarchal ideas did, in fact, persist into the 19th:, 20th, and even 21st centuries.