1. Beyond the search for sisterhood : American women's history in the 1990s / Nancy A. Hewitt -- 2. "This evil extends especially to the feminine sex" : captivity and identity in New Mexico, 1700-1846 / James F. Brooks -- 3. Distress and discord in Virginia slave families, 1830-1860 / Brenda Stevenson -- 4. Gender, race, and culture : Spanish Mexican women in the historiography of frontier California / Antonia I. Castañeda -- 5. To earn her daily bread : housework and antebellum working-class subsistence / Jeanne Boydston -- 6. Cherokee women and the trail of tears / Theda Perdue -- 7. "Domestic" life in the diggings : the Southern mines in the California gold rush / Susan Lee Johnson -- 8. To catch the vision of freedom : reconstructing Southern Black women's political history, 1865-1880 / Elsa Barkley Brown -- 9. Deference and defiance : labor politics and the meanings of masculinity in the mid-nineteenth-century New England textile industry / Mary H. Blewett -- 10. Miscegenation law, court cases, and ideologies of "race" in twentieth-century America / Peggy Pascoe -- 11. "Too dark to be angels" : the class system among the Cherokees at the female seminary / Devon A. Mihesuah -- 12. Going for the jugular of Hindu patriarchy : American women fund-raisers for Ramabai / Kumari Jayawardena -- 13. Ilse women and the early Korean American community : redefining the origins of feminist empowerment / Alice Yang Murray -- 14. Black and white visions of welfare : women's welfare activism, 1890-1945 / Linda Gordon --
15. Partisan women in the Progressive Era : the struggle for inclusion in American political parties / Melanie Gustafson -- 16. Unbound feet : Chinese women in the public sphere / Judy Yung -- 17. The emergence of feminism in Puerto Rico, 1870-1930 / Yamila Azize-Vargas -- 18. Woman suffrage around the world : three phases of suffragist internationalism / Ellen Carol DuBois -- 19. In politics to stay : Black women leaders and party politics in the 1920s / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -- 20. Sexual geography and gender economy : the furnished-room districts of Chicago, 1890-1930 / Joanne Meyerowitz -- 21. Making faces : the cosmetics industry and the cultural construction of gender , 1890-1930 / Kathy Peiss -- 22. "Star struck" : acculturation, adolescence, and Mexican American women, 1920-1950 / Vicki L. Ruiz -- 23. Crossed boundaries in interracial Chicago : Pilipino American families since 1925 / Barbara M. Posadas -- 24. "We are that mythical thing called the public" : militant housewives during the Great Depression / Annelise Orleck -- 25. Raiz Fuerte : oral history and Mexicana farmworkers / Devra Anne Weber -- 26. Breaking the silence : putting Latina lesbian history at the center / Yolanda Chavez Leyva -- 27. "But we would never talk about it" : the structures of lesbian discretion in South Dakota, 1928-1933 / Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy -- 28. Open secrets : memory, imagination, and the refashioning of Southern identity / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- 29. From servitude to service work : historical continuities in the racial division of paid reproductive labor / Evelyn Nakano Glenn --
30. Telling performances : jazz history remembered and remade by the women in the band / Sherie Tucker
31. Japanese American women during World War II / Valerie Matsumoto
32. Rethinking Betty Friedan the feminine mystique : labor union radicalism and feminism in Cold War America / Daniel Horowitz
33. Between culture and politics : the Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs and the promulgation of women's history, 1944-1989 / Joyce Antler
34. "More than a lady" : Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and Black women's leadership in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee / Cynthia Griggs Fleming
35. To become an American woman : education and sex role socialization of the Vietnamese immigrant woman / Gail Paradise Kelly
36. Changing women : the crosscurrents of American Indian feminine identity / Rebecca Tsosie
37. Community, patriarchy, and individualism : the politics of Chicano history and the dream of equality / Ramon A. Gutierrez
38. Dependency and choice : the two faces of Eve / Rickie Solinger
39. Teaching the differences among women from a historical perspective : rethinking race and gender as social categories / Tessie Liu
African American women / compiled by Daina L. Ramey
Asian American women / compiled by Alice Y. Hom
Latinas / compiled by Mary Ann Villarreal
Native American women / compiled by Annette L. Reed.
