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| Preface | |
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| About the Editors | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier | |
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| The Beginnings of the Afro-American Family in Maryland | |
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| Women and Property across Colonial America | |
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| Food Rioters and the American Revolution | |
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| Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills: "The Oppressing Hand of Avarice Would Enslave Us" | |
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| The Domestic Balance of Power: Relations Between Mistress and Maid in Nineteenth-Century New England | |
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| Gender and Slave Labor in Antebellum New Orleans | |
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| Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-slavery Movement: Angelina and Sarah Grimke in 1837 | |
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| Women and Indians on the Frontier | |
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| Victorian Women and Domestic Life: Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
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| Reproductive Control and Conflict in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Exclusion of Chinese Women, 1870-1943 | |
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| Separatism as Strategy: Female Institution Building and American Feminism, 1870-1930 | |
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| Race and Womanhood: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union and African-American Women in North Carolina, 1880-1900 | |
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| Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers | |
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| "Charity Girls" and City Pleasures: Historical Notes on Working-Class Sexuality, 1880-1920 | |
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| Discontented Black Feminists: Prelude and Postscript to the Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment | |
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| The Professionalization of Birth Control | |
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| Why Were Most Politically Active Women Opposed to the ERA in the 1920s? | |
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| Companionate Marriage and the Lesbian Threat | |
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| Redefining "Women's Work": The Sexual Division of Labor in the Auto Industry During World War II | |
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| When Women Arrived: The Transformation of New York's Chinatown | |
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| Nina Simone, Culture, and Black Activism in the 1960s | |
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| A New Women's Movement: The Emergence of the National Organization for Women | |
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| State Building, Health Policy, and the Persistence of the American Abortion Debate | |
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| Buscando La Vida: Mexican Immigrant Women's Memories of Home, Yearning, and Border Crossings | |
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| Christians for Biblical Equality and the Fight for the Middle Ground | |
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| Selected Links to U.S. Women's History Resource Materials on the World Wide Web | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Photo Credits | |