Chapter 1 Introduction: The Importance of 'Ordinary' Women's Lives
Part 2 I. The Revolutionary Era and the Early Republic: Defining the American Woman
Chapter 3 Rebecca Dickinson: A Life Alone in the Early Republic
Chapter 4 Susanna Haswell Rowson: America's First Best-Selling Author
Chapter 5 Sacagawea: A Historical Enigma
Part 6 II. The Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Era of the Common Woman
Chapter 7 Caroline Healey Dall: Transcendental Activist
Chapter 8 Mary S. Gove Nichols: Making the Personal Political
Chapter 9 Eliza Johnson Potter: Traveler, Entrepreneur, and Social Critic
Chapter 10 Ada Adelaine Adams Vogdes: 'Follow the Drum'
Chapter 11 Teresa E. Wooldridge Ivey: Constructing an Ideal Southern Lady
Part 12 III. The Late Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries: Inventing The New Woman
Chapter 13 Gertrude Osterhout: 'I Am Independent'
Chapter 14 Margaret Olivia Slocum, 'Mrs. Russell Sage': Private Griefs and Public Duties
Chapter 15 Nellie Wiegel: 'How About That?!'
Chapter 16 Ah Cum Kee and Loy Lee Ford: Between Two Worlds
Chapter 17 Catherine Kenny: Fighting for the Perfect Thirty-Sixth
Part 18 IV. World War II and Beyond: Women Challenging Modern America
Chapter 19 Willie Webb: One Woman's Struggle for Civil Rights during World War II
Chapter 20 Ethel Thomas Herold: Doing 'Women's Work' in a Philippines at War
Chapter 21 Betty Flanagan Bumpers: An 'Ordinary Mother' Dedicated to Peace
Chapter 22 Margarita 'Mago' Orona Gandara: Frontera Muralist/Artist
Chapter 23 About the Contributors
Chapter 24 Index