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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Gender and the New Women's History | |
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| Traditional America, 1600-1820 | |
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| Creating a Blended Household: Christian Indian Women and English Domestic Life in Colonial Massachusetts | |
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| "This Evil Extends Especially ... to the Feminine Sex": Negotiating Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands | |
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| The Ways of Her Household | |
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| Documents: The Law of Domestic Relations: Marriage, Divorce, Dower | |
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| Examples from Colonial Connecticut | |
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| African American Women in Colonial Society | |
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| Documents: The Law of Slavery | |
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| "According to the condition of the mother ..." | |
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| "For prevention of that abominable mixture ..." | |
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| "Searchers again Assembled": Gender Distinctions in Seventeenth-Century America | |
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| Document: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 | |
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| "What law have I broken?" | |
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| The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: The Economic Basis of Witchcraft | |
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| Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village | |
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| Documents: Supporting the Revolution | |
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| "The ladies going about for money exceeded everything ..." | |
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| Sarah Osborn, "The bullets would not cheat the gallows ..." | |
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| Rachel Wells, "I have Don as much to Carrey on the Warr as maney ..." | |
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| The Republican Mother and the Woman Citizen: Contradictions and Choices in Revolutionary America | |
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| The Many Frontiers of Industrializing America, 1820-1900 | |
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| Documents: The Testimony of Slave Women | |
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| Maria Perkins, "I am quite heartsick ..." | |
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| Rose, "Look for some others for to 'plenish de earth" | |
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| Lines of Color, Sex, and Service: Sexual Coercion in the Early Republic | |
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| Women's Work: The Gender Division of Labor in Yeoman Households of South Carolina before the Civil War | |
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| The Pastoralization of Housework | |
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| Document: Working Conditions in Early Factories, 1845 | |
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| "She complained of the hours for labor being too many ..." | |
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| The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America | |
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| Abortion in America | |
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| Documents: Claiming Rights I | |
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| Sarah and Angelina Grimke: The Connection between Religious Faith, Abolition, and Women's Rights | |
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| Keziah Kendall, "What I have suffered, I cannot tell you" | |
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| The Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention: A Study of Social Networks | |
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| Documents: Claiming Rights II | |
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| Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 | |
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| Married Women's Property Acts, New York State, 1848, 1860 | |
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| Sojourner Truth's Defense of the Rights of Women (as reported in 1851; rewritten in 1863) | |
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| Enemies in Our Households: Confederate Women and Slavery | |
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| Documents: Counterfeit Freedom | |
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| A. S. Hitchcock, "Young women particularly flock back & forth ..." | |
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| Roda Ann Childs, "I was more dead than alive" | |
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| Reconstruction and the Meanings of Freedom | |
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| Documents: After the Civil War: Reconsidering the Law | |
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| Reconstruction Amendments, 1868, 1870 | |
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| Bradwell v. Illinois, 1873 | |
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| Comstock Law, 1873 | |
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| Minor v. Happersett, 1875 | |
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| Reading Little Women: The Many Lives of a Text | |
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| Document: The Women's Centennial Agenda, 1876 | |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, "Guaranteed to us and our daughters forever" | |
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| Ida B. Wells and Southern Horrors | |
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| Ophelia Paquet, a Tillamook Indian Wife: Miscegenation Laws and the Privileges of Property | |
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| Documents: Claiming an Education | |
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| Mary Tape, "What right! have you to bar my children out of the school because she is of chinese Descend ..." | |
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| Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), "... this semblance of civilization ..." | |
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| Forging Interracial Links in the Jim Crow South | |
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| Creating the State in an Industrialized Nation, 1900-1945 | |
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| Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women | |
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| Unbound Feet: From China to San Francisco's Chinatown | |
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| From the Russian Pale to Labor Organizing in New York City | |
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| Florence Kelley and Women's Activism in the Progressive Era | |
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| Document: Protecting Women Wage-Workers | |
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| Muller v. Oregon, 1908 | |
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| Pauline Newman, "We fought and we bled and we died ..." | |
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| Orphans and Ethnic Division in Arizona: The Mexican Mothers and the Mexican Town | |
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| The Next Generation of Suffragists: Harriot Stanton Blatch and Grassroots Politics | |
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| Documents: Dimensions of Citizenship I | |
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| Mackenzie v. Hare, 1915 | |
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| Equal Suffrage (Nineteenth) Amendment, 1920 | |
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| Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 1923 | |
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| Margaret Sanger, "I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception ..." | |
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| Equal Rights and Economic Roles: The Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s | |
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| Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal of Slenderness in American Culture | |
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| The "Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South | |
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| When Abortion Was a Crime: Reproduction and the Economy in the Great Depression | |
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| Harder Times: The Great Depression | |
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| Document: Struggling to Unionize | |
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| Genora Johnson Dollinger, "... Once she understands she is standing in defense of her family--well, God, don't fool around with that woman then" | |
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| Designing Women and Old Fools: Writing Gender into Social Security Law | |
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| Storms on Every Front: Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights at Home and in Europe | |
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| Life Interrupted: A Young Refugee Arrives in America | |
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| Japanese American Women during World War II | |
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| Gender at Work: The Sexual Division of Labor during World War II | |
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| Struggles Against Injustice, 1945-2000 | |
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| Betty Friedan and the Origins of Feminism in Cold War America | |
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| Neighborhood Women and Grassroots Human Rights | |
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| Miriam Van Waters and the Burning of Letters | |
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| "Mannishness," Lesbianism, and Homophobia in U.S. Women's Sports | |
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| Ladies' Day at the Capitol: Women Strike for Peace versus HUAC | |
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| A Woman's War: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Documents: Dimensions of Citizenship II | |
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| Pauli Murray, "I had entered law school preoccupied with the racial struggle ... but I graduated an unabashed feminist as well..." | |
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| Hoyt v. Florida, 1961; Taylor v. Louisiana, 1975 | |
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| Civil Rights Act, Title VII, 1964 | |
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| A Human Right to Welfare? Social Protest among Women Welfare Recipients after World War II | |
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| Prescribing the Pill: The Coming of the Sexual Revolution in America's Heartland | |
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| Why the Shirelles Mattered: Girl Groups on the Cusp of a Feminist Awakening | |
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| Documents: Making the Personal Political | |
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| Betty Friedan, "The problem that has no name ... I understood first as a woman ..." | |
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| Carol Hanisch, "The protest of the Miss America Pageant ... told the nation a new feminist movement is afoot..." | |
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| Redstockings, "Male supremacy is the oldest, most basic form of domination" | |
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| Radicalesbians, "What is a lesbian?" | |
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| Jennie V. Chavez, "It has taken ... a long time ... to realize and speak out about the double oppression of Mexican-American women" | |
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| "Women in the Asian movement find that ... stereotypes are still hovering over their heads ... that [they] must play [the] old role[s] in order to get things done" | |
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| The Combahee River Collective, "We also find it difficult to separate race from class from sex oppression" | |
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| Kay Weiss, "One of the cruelest forms of sexism we live with today is ... [that] of many doctors" | |
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| Phyllis Schlafly, The thoughts of one who loves life as a woman ..." | |
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| Second-Wave Feminists and the Dynamics of Social Change | |
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| Documents: Dimensions of Citizenship III | |
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| Equal Rights Amendment, 1972 | |
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| Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972 | |
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| Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973 | |
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| Roe v. Wade, 1973; Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 1992 | |
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| Documents: Dimensions of Citzenship IV | |
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| "We were the first American women sent to live and work in the midst of guerrilla warfare ..." | |
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| Rostker v. Goldberg, 1981 | |
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| Meritor Savings Bank v. Mechelle Vinson et al., 1986 | |
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| Violence against Women Act, 1994, 2000 | |
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| Women in the Gulf War | |
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| Documents: The Changing Workplace | |
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| Lucille Schmidt, "... It's such a waste--such a waste of people. The way they put in word processing there, you had a lot fo smart women getting dumb very fast" | |
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| Susan Eisenberg, "Entering construction ... was a little like falling in love with someone you weren't supposed to" | |
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| "Material Girl": Madonna as Postmodern Heroine | |
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| Documents: Rethinking Marriage in the Late Twentieth Century | |
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| Loving v. Virginia; Griswold v. Connecticut; Defense of Marriage Act | |
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| Sexual Harassment on Trial: The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Narrative(s) | |
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| Inscriptions of Poverty on the Female Body in the Era of Welfare Reform | |
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| Sweatshops Here and There: The Garment Industry, Latinas, and Labor Migrations | |
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| Thirty Years after Roe: The Continued Assault on a Woman's Right to Choose | |
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| Women and Global Citizenship | |
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| Reference Works | |
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| Index | |