1. Early America: 1600-1820:
"Some could suckle over their shoulder": European depictions of indigenous women, 1492-1750
The ways of her household
Document: The law of domestic relations: marriage, divorce, dower; Examples from colonial Connecticut
"Searchers again assembled": gender distinctions in seventeenth-century America
Document: The trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637
The devil in the shape of a woman: the economic basis of witchcraft
African American women in colonial society
Documents: The law of slavery and freedom
Captivity and conversion: daughters of New England in French Canada
Taking the trade: abortion and gender relations in an eighteenth-century New England village
Documents: Supporting the revolution
The Hemings-Jefferson Treaty: Paris, 1789
The republican mother and the woman citizen: contradictions and choices in revolutionary America.
2. The many frontiers of industrializing America, 1820-1880:
Documents: The testimony of slave women
Lines of color, sex, and service: sexual coercion in the early republic
The pastoralization of housework
Document: Working conditions in early factories, 1845
The female world of love and ritual: relations between women in nineteenth-century America
Habits of compassion: Irish American nuns in New York City
Signatures of citizenship: debating women's antislavery petitions
Documents: Claiming rights I
Photo essay: Women in public
The meanings of Seneca Falls, 1848-1998
Documents: Claiming rights II
Document: Sojourner truth's carte de visite
"I know what an Indian woman can do": Sarah Winnemucca writes about rape on the Norther Paiute frontier
Enemies in our households: confederate women and slavery
Documents: Counterfeit freedom
Reconstruction and the meanings of freedom
Documents: After the Civil War: reconsidering the law
Reading 'Little Women': the many lives of a text
Document: The women's centennial agenda, 1976.
3. Creating the state in an industrialized nation: 1880-1945:
Pioneers at the polls: woman suffrage in the West
Ida B. Wells and Southern Horrors
Documents: Claiming an education
Ophelia Paquet, a Tillamook Indian wife: Miscegenation laws and the privileges of property
Forging interracial links in the Jim Crow South
Unbound feet: from China to San Francisco's Chinatown
From the Russian pale to labor organizing in New York City
Florence Kelley and women's activism in the Progressive Era
Documents: Protecting women wage-workers
The next generation of suffragists: Harriot Stanton Blatch and grassroots politics
Documents: Dimensions of citizenship I
Equal rights and economic roles: the conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1920s
Fasting girls: the emerging ideal of slenderness in American culture
Photo essay: Adorning the body
The flapper and the chaperone: Mexican American teenagers in the Southwest
The 'Industrial Revolution' in the home: household technology and social change in the twentieth century
Disorderly women: gender and labor militancy in the Appalachian South
When abortion was a crime: reproduction and the economy in the great depression
Harder times: the Great Depression
Document: struggling to unionize
Designing women and old fools: writing gender into Social Security law
Storms on every front: Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights at home and in Europe
Japanese American women during World War II
Prostitutes on strike: the women of Hotel Street during World War II
Gender at work: the sexual division of labor during World War II.
4. Struggles against injustice: 1945-2010:
Betty Friedan and the origins of feminism in Cold War America
Miriam Van Waters and the burning of letters
"Mannishness," lesbianism, and homophobia in U.S. Women's sports
Imagining Jewish mothers in the 1950s
Ladies' Day at the Capital: Women strike for peace vs. HUAC
A woman's war: African American women in the civil rights movement
Documents: Dimensions of citizenship II
Prescribing the pill: the coming of the sexual revolution in America's heartland
Why the Shirelles mattered: girl groups on the cusp of a feminist awakening
Hard choices at 1801 Vine: African American women, child support, and domestic violence in postwar Philadelphia
Second-wave feminists and the dynamics of social change
Documents: Making the personal political
Documents: Dimensions of citizenship III
Documents: Making women's studies
The female shape of the all-volunteer force
Document: The changing workplace
Document: Rethinking marriage
Document: Embracing global feminism
Sisterhood, slavery, and sovereignty: transnational women's rights movements from 1840 through the beginning of the twenty-first century.
