| Table of Contents |
| | Acknowledgments | |
| | Introduction | |
| Pt. 1 | Modern Women in the Making, 1890-1920 | 1 |
| | 1 | Visions of the New Woman | 3 |
| | | | "Girl Reporter Derring-Do" / Nellie Bly | 5 |
| | | | The Fair Women, Chicago, 1893 / Bertha Palmer | 8 |
| | | | Black Women Plan to Lead their Race / Anna J. Cooper | 12 |
| | | | Frances Willard Equates Learning to Ride a Bicycle with Opening New Frontiers for Women | 15 |
| | | | An Immigrant Daughter Awakens to the Possibilities of the New World / Anzia Yezierska | 18 |
| | | | Dance Hall Madness / Belle Lindner Israels | 21 |
| | | | A Woman Homesteader / Edith Eudora Ammons | 25 |
| | 2 | Expanding Horizons for Educated Women | 30 |
| | | | M. Carey Thomas at Cornell | 32 |
| | | | Jane Addams Struggles with the Problem of "After College, What?" | 36 |
| | | | Alice Hamilton Explores the Dangerous Trades | 40 |
| | | | African-American Women Enter the Teaching Profession / Mamie Garvin Fields | 42 |
| | | | A Pioneering Dean of Women / Lucy Sprague Mitchell | 46 |
| | | | Women and Progressive Politics / Mary Ritter Beard | 50 |
| | 3 | Women at Work | 54 |
| | | | The Burdens of Rural Women's Lives | 56 |
| | | | Buffalobird Woman's Story | 58 |
| | | | The Harsh Conditions of Domestic Service | 60 |
| | | | Female Perspectives on the Great Migration | 64 |
| | | | The Story of a Glove Maker / Agnes Nestor | 67 |
| | | | Working Women Write the Jewish Daily Forward | 70 |
| | | | Protective Legislation for Women Workers (Muller V. Oregon) | 74 |
| | 4 | Feminists, Anarchists, and Other Rebel Girls | 87 |
| | | | Housewives Protest High Food Prices / Meredith Tax | 89 |
| | | | A Feminist Challenge to the Privatized Home / Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 93 |
| | | | Wages for Housework / Josephine Conger-Kaneko | 97 |
| | | | Margaret Sanger's Epiphany Over Birth Control | 100 |
| | | | A Radical View of Women's Emancipation / Emma Goldman | 106 |
| | 5 | The Final Push for Suffrage | 112 |
| | | | A Western Suffragist Talks to Her Eastern Sisters / Abigail Scott Duniway | 114 |
| | | | Open-Air Meetings: A New Suffrage Tactic / Florence Luscomb | 117 |
| | | | An Anti-Suffrage Monologue / Marie Jenny Howe | 120 |
| | | | A Labor Organizer Speaks Out for Suffrage / Leonora O'Reilly | 125 |
| | | | "Front Door Lobbying" for Suffrage / Maud Wood Park | 128 |
| | | | Suffrage Militant Alice Paul Goes to Jail | 131 |
| Pt. 2 | Individual Choices, Collective Progress, 1920-1963 | 139 |
| | 6 | New Dilemmas for Modern Women | 141 |
| | | | New Voters / Carrie Chapman Catt | 143 |
| | | | Generational Conflicts / Dorothy Dunbar Bromley | 145 |
| | | | Creating a Feminist Lifestyle / Crystal Eastman | 149 |
| | | | The New Woman in Fiction / Eudora Ramsey Richardson | 155 |
| | | | Anxious Mothers Write the Children's Bureau | 161 |
| | | | Female Adolescence / Kate Simon | 166 |
| | 7 | Women Face the Depression | 172 |
| | | | The Despair of Unemployed Women / Meridel Lesueur | 174 |
| | | | American Women Ask Eleanor Roosevelt for Help | 180 |
| | | | The Dust Bowl / Ann Marie Low | 186 |
| | | | The Life Cycle of a White Southern Farm Woman / Margaret Jarman Hagood | 189 |
| | | | A Mexican-American Childhood During the Depression / Carlotta Silvas Martin | 195 |
| | | | Women and Labor Militancy / Genora Johnson Dollinger | 199 |
| | 8 | Rosie the Riveter and Other Wartime Women | 213 |
| | | | Rosie the Riveter / Fanny Christina Hill | 215 |
| | | | Women in the Armed Forces / Marion Stegeman | 219 |
| | | | Wartime Migration / Harriette Arnow | 225 |
| | | | Japanese Relocation / Monica Sone | 231 |
| | | | Women of Wartime Los Alamos / Ruth Marshak | 236 |
| | 9 | The Fifties: The Way We Were? | 241 |
| | | | The Feminine Mystique, from the Woman Who Coined the Phrase / Betty Friedan | 243 |
| | | | Balancing Work and Family / Betty Jeanne Boggs | 252 |
| | | | Female Entrepreneurship in the 1950s / Helen Stone Hovey | 257 |
| | | | Women Strike for Peace / Ethel Barol Taylor | 260 |
| | | | Civil Rights Activists / Rosa Parks, Virginia Foster Durr | 263 |
| | | | Desegregating the University of Georgia, 1961 / Charlayne Hunter-Gault | 269 |
| Pt. 3 | The Personal Becomes Political, 1963 to the Present | 277 |
| | 10 | The Revival of Feminism | 279 |
| | | | Founding the National Organization for Women, 1966 | 281 |
| | | | Feminist Guerilla Theater, 1968 / Robin Morgan | 286 |
| | | | The Politics of Housework / Pattern Mainardi | 289 |
| | | | Thoughts on Indian Feminism / Kate Shanley | 292 |
| | | | Black Feminism Combahee River Collective | 296 |
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