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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Editors' Introduction | |
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| Empowering "The Welder": A Historical Survey of Women of Color in the West | |
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| Native American Women: Changing Statuses, Changing Interpretations | |
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| Race, Gender, and Intercultural Relations: The Case of Interracial Marriage | |
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| "A Poor Widow Burdened with Children": Widows and Land in Colonial New Mexico | |
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| "This Evil Extends Especially to the Feminine Sex": Captivity and Identity in New Mexico, 1700-1846 | |
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| When Strangers Met: Sex and Gender on Three Frontiers | |
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| The Women of Lincoln County, 1860-1900 | |
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| "I See What I Have Done": The Life and Murder Trial of Xwelas, a S'Klallam Woman | |
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| "Yo Sola Aprendi": Mexican Women's Personal Narratives from Nineteenth-Century California | |
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| Gender and the "Citizen Indian" | |
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| Resistance to Rescue: The Indians of Bahapki and Mrs. Annie E. K. Bidwell | |
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| Beyond the Stereotypes: Chinese Pioneer Women | |
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| "I Got a Girl Here, Would You Like to Meet Her?": Courtship, Ethnicity, and Community in Sweetwater County, 1900-1925 | |
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| Euskaldun Andreak: Basque Women as Hard Workers, Hoteleras, and Matriarchs | |
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| "We Are Women Irish": Gender, Class, Religious, and Ethnic Identity in Anaconda, Montana | |
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| Drag's a Life: Women, Gender, and Cross-Dressing in the Nineteenth-Century West | |
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| Dead Ends of Gold Mines? Using Missionary Records in Mexican American Women's History | |
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| Lifting as We Climb: African American Women's Clubs of Denver, 1890-1925 | |
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| "Save the Babies!": American Indian Women, Assimilation Policy, and Scientific Motherhood, 1912-1918 | |
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| Introduction to Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America | |
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| Alice Dickerson Montemayor: Feminism and Mexican American Politics in the 1930s | |
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| Desperately Seeking "Deirdre": Gender Roles, Multicultural Relations, and Nisei Women Writers of the 1930s | |
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| Dolores Del Rio and Lupe Velez: Images on and off the Screen, 1925-1944 | |
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| Tsugiki, A Grafting: A History of a Japanese Pioneer Woman in Washington State | |
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| "Not in Somebody's Kitchen": African American Women Workers in Richmond, California, and the Impact of World War II | |
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| Changing Woman Meets Madonna: Navajo Women's Networks and Sex-Gender Values in Transition | |
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| Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists: "Mothers of East Los Angeles" | |
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| Southeast Asian Refugee Women, War, and Resettlement | |
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| "My Mother Was a Mover": African American Seminole Women in Brackettville, Texas, 1914-1964 | |
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| Selected Bibliographies | |
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| General Bibliography | |
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| African American Women | |
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| Asian American Women | |
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| Euro-American Ethnic Women | |
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| Native American Women | |
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| Latinas/Hispanas | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| Index | |