Pt. 1. Modern Women in the Making, 1890-1920
1. Visions of the New Woman
"Girl Reporter Derring-Do" / Nellie Bly
Fair Women, Chicago, 1893 / Bertha Palmer
Black Women Plan to Lead their Race / Anna J. Cooper
Frances Willard Equates Learning to Ride a Bicycle with Opening New Frontiers for Women
Immigrant Daughter Awakens to the Possibilities of the New World / Anzia Yezierska
Dance Hall Madness / Belle Lindner Israels
Woman Homesteader / Edith Eudora Ammons
2. Expanding Horizons for Educated Women
M. Carey Thomas at Cornell
Jane Addams Struggles with the Problem of "After College, What?"
Alice Hamilton Explores the Dangerous Trades
African-American Women Enter the Teaching Profession / Mamie Garvin Fields
Pioneering Dean of Women / Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Women and Progressive Politics / Mary Ritter Beard
3. Women at Work
Burdens of Rural Women's Lives
Buffalobird Woman's Story
Harsh Conditions of Domestic Service
Female Perspectives on the Great Migration
Story of a Glove Maker / Agnes Nestor
Working Women Write the Jewish Daily Forward
Protective Legislation for Women Workers (Muller V. Oregon)
4. Feminists, Anarchists, and Other Rebel Girls
Housewives Protest High Food Prices / Meredith Tax
Feminist Challenge to the Privatized Home / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Wages for Housework / Josephine Conger-Kaneko
Margaret Sanger's Epiphany Over Birth Control
Radical View of Women's Emancipation / Emma Goldman
5. Final Push for Suffrage
Western Suffragist Talks to Her Eastern Sisters / Abigail Scott Duniway
Open-Air Meetings: A New Suffrage Tactic / Florence Luscomb
Anti-Suffrage Monologue / Marie Jenny Howe
Labor Organizer Speaks Out for Suffrage / Leonora O'Reilly
"Front Door Lobbying" for Suffrage / Maud Wood Park
Suffrage Militant Alice Paul Goes to Jail
Pt. 2. Individual Choices, Collective Progress, 1920-1963
6. New Dilemmas for Modern Women
New Voters / Carrie Chapman Catt
Generational Conflicts / Dorothy Dunbar Bromley
Creating a Feminist Lifestyle / Crystal Eastman
New Woman in Fiction / Eudora Ramsey Richardson
Anxious Mothers Write the Children's Bureau
Female Adolescence / Kate Simon
7. Women Face the Depression
Despair of Unemployed Women / Meridel Lesueur
American Women Ask Eleanor Roosevelt for Help
Dust Bowl / Ann Marie Low
Life Cycle of a White Southern Farm Woman / Margaret Jarman Hagood
Mexican-American Childhood During the Depression / Carlotta Silvas Martin
Women and Labor Militancy / Genora Johnson Dollinger
8. Rosie the Riveter and Other Wartime Women
Rosie the Riveter / Fanny Christina Hill
Women in the Armed Forces / Marion Stegeman
Wartime Migration / Harriette Arnow
Japanese Relocation / Monica Sone
Women of Wartime Los Alamos / Ruth Marshak
9. Fifties: The Way We Were?
Feminine Mystique, from the Woman Who Coined the Phrase / Betty Friedan
Balancing Work and Family / Betty Jeanne Boggs
Female Entrepreneurship in the 1950s / Helen Stone Hovey
Women Strike for Peace / Ethel Barol Taylor
Civil Rights Activists / Rosa Parks and Virginia Foster Durr
Desegregating the University of Georgia, 1961 / Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Pt. 3. Personal Becomes Political, 1963 to the Present
10. Revival of Feminism
Founding the National Organization for Women, 1966
Feminist Guerilla Theater, 1968 / Robin Morgan
Politics of Housework / Pattern Mainardi
Thoughts on Indian Feminism / Kate Shanley
Black Feminism / Combahee River Collective
More Personal View of Black Feminism / Michele Wallace
11. Women, Work, and Social Change
Clerical Workers Unite / Cathy Tuley
Real "Norma Rae" Tells Her Story / Crystal Lee Sutton
Hard-Hatted Women / Susan Eisenberg
Organizing the Farm Workers / Jessie Lopez de la Cruz
Women on Welfare / Johnnie Tillmon
12. New Issues of Sex and Sexuality
Sex and the Single Girl / Helen Gurley Brown
Abortion as a Legal and Feminist Issue (Roe V. Wade)
Coming Out / Margaret Cruikshank
Sex and Sports / Mariah Burton Nelson
Women and Aids / Lisa Tiger
13. Conflicting Visions and Emerging Voices since the 1970s
Houston, 1977
Positive Woman / Phyllis Schlafly
Blacklash Against Feminism / Susan Faludi
Woman of Conscience / Anita Hill
Women and Disabilities / Nancy Mairs
Voice of an Anorexic / Abra Fortune Chernik
Borderlands / Gloria Anzaldua.