In her introduction, Sowernam states that she desired to respond to John Swetnam's misogynistic tirade, The Arraignment of Women, at an earlier date but word reached her that someone else had already responded to the tract. The eight chapters which form Ester Hath Hanged Hamam vary both in content and style.
Some chapters deal almost exclusively with women.
Another lists famous women of the Bible, of antiquity, and of her own time. Still another uses biblical references to establish woman's goodness and God's satisfaction with his female creation. On the other hand, some chapters deal almost exclusively with men. Here Sowernam turns the table on Swetnam and arraigns him and all of mankind by leveling the same kinds of accusations against Swetnam and mankind that Swetnam had leveled against womankind. In the concluding chapter, Sowernam's ideas are echoed in a poem by Joane Sharp.