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| Preface | |
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| About the Author | |
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| The Emergence of the Modern American Woman, 1890 | |
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| Women's Status in 1890 | |
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| Legal Codes | |
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| Educational Opportunities | |
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| Medicine and Sexuality | |
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| A "Strange New Note" | |
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| Aging Women and Menopause | |
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| Women's Romantic Friendships | |
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| The Middle-Class Family | |
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| Employment | |
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| Inventors and Entrepreneurs | |
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| Discrimination Against Working Women | |
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| Discrimination in the Professions: Feminization | |
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| The Male Response: Masculinization | |
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| Rural and Urban Women | |
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| Rural Women of the Midwest, South, and Southwest | |
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| Urban Working Conditions | |
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| Immigration and Ethnicity Across the Nation | |
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| European Immigration and Women's Work | |
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| Asian Immigration | |
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| Chinese Immigration | |
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| Japanese Immigration | |
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| Korean and Filipino Immigration | |
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| Race and Representation | |
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| African American Women | |
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| Native American Women | |
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| Women and the Columbian Centennial of 1893 | |
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| Organizers and Innovators: Reformers, Feminists, Union Leaders, and Suffragists, 1890-1920 | |
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| Women's Rights and Progressivism: A Case of Give and Take | |
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| The Organizations: Growth and Changing Goals | |
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| A Broad Spectrum | |
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| Progressive Reform and Settlement Houses | |
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| The "Female Dominion" of Reform | |
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| Women's Frailty, Special Legislation, and Maternal Feminism | |
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| Racism and Elitism in Anglo-American Women's Organizations | |
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| Diversity in Ethnic and Black Women's Organizations | |
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| The Artists | |
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| The Radicals | |
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| The New Scholars | |
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| Feminist Action Groups: A Faint Voice | |
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| Two Generations | |
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| Strikes and Unionists | |
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| The Consumers' League and the Women's Trade Union League | |
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| The New Sensuality | |
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| The Suffragists | |
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| Suffrage Deceived | |
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| Suffrage Achieved | |
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| Women and World War I | |
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| The Final Victory | |
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| Freedom or Disillusionment? the 1920S | |
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| Antifeminist Undercurrents and Feminist Conservatism | |
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| Sexuality | |
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| "Flaming Youth"--New Liberties, New Repressions, and Old Attitudes | |
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| Conservatism and Eugenics | |
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| Women at Work: Progress and Setbacks | |
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| Married Women at Work | |
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| Professional Women | |
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| Artists and Writers of Achievement | |
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| Mexican Immigration: Women, Work, and Acculturation | |
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| Working Women | |
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| Labor Unions in a Conservative Era | |
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| Women's Organizations in the 1920s | |
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| Women's Organizations in Transition | |
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| The Sheppard-Towner Act: Successes and Failures | |
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| The New Heroines | |
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| Women in the Depression and War Era, 193-1945 | |
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| Feminism and Women's Organizations | |
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| Southern Women and the Antilynching Movement | |
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| Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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| The Women's Network and New Deal Programs | |
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| The NRA and New Deal Discrimination Against Women | |
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| Changes for the Working Woman | |
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| African American and Hispanic Women | |
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| Unions in an Age of Depression | |
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| The Importance of the Communist Party | |
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| Sexuality and Security | |
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| Marriage and Family in an Insecure Age | |
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| Lesbians and Gays: Oppressed Minorities | |
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| Popular Culture | |
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| Fashionable Appearances and Contradictions | |
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| Strong Women: Soaps, Sleuths, and Scarlett | |
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| Imagining Movies: West, Westerns, and Censorship | |
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| Race and Popular Culture | |
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| Women as Part of the War Effort During World War II | |
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| Women Take on Male Roles | |
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| Film Noir and Anxious Roles | |
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| Limitations During the War | |
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| Work After the War | |
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| Rebel Youth | |
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| A Conservative Era, 1945-1960 | |
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| Anticommunism | |
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| Women Under Attack | |
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| Domesticity and the Family | |
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| The Back-to-the-Home Movement | |
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| The Evidence from Popular Culture | |
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| Styles in Dress | |
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| Movies | |
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| Television | |
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| Sex and Childrearing | |
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| A Sexual Underside | |
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| Playboy and Barbie | |
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| Feminism in the 1950s | |
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| New Economic, Demographic, and Medical Factors | |
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| The New Trends and the Persistence of Discrimination | |
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| Conformity and Male Discontent | |
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| The Youth Rebellion | |
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| The Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Progress and Backlash, the 1960s and 1970s | |
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| New Faces and New Music | |
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| Hippies and "Swinging Singles" | |
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| The Formation of NOW | |
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| The Feminist Movement After NOW | |
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| Discrimination Against Women | |
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| Sexuality and Power: Women's Bodies | |
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| Feminism: Cultural Impacts | |
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| Feminist Spirituality | |
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| Movies and Television: A Wasteland for Women | |
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| Minority Protest | |
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| Native Americans | |
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| Mexican Americans, Hispanics, Latinos | |
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| African Americans | |
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| Lesbians, Gays, and the Stonewall Riot | |
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| Legislative and Legal Successes | |
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| The Feminist Movement: United and Divided | |
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| Marriage and the Family; "Equality" Versus "Difference" Feminists | |
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| The Sex Wars | |
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| Lesbians | |
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| Women of Color | |
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| Feminist Achievements and the Houston National Women's Conference | |
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| Backlash | |
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| The New Right | |
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| Pro-Life and Pro-Choice | |
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| Backlash in the Media, in Appearances, and in Advertising | |
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| Disco and Punk | |
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| Recent Immigration | |
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| The Third Wave, 1980-2004 | |
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| Politics Become Conservative | |
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| Backlash Continues | |
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| The Emergence of New Styles | |
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| Fashions, Advertising, and Disco | |
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| Rap and Hip-hop | |
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| Madonna | |
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| The Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas Scandal | |
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| Feminism Takes New Forms | |
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| "Unobtrusive Mobilization" and the Military | |
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| Postmodernism | |
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| The Clinton Presidency | |
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| Generational Conflict | |
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| Third-Wave Feminism | |
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| The Recent Situation | |
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| The George W. Bush Presidency | |
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| Women and Aging in Contemporary Times | |
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| The Present: Revolutionary or Not? | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |