Introduction : converging on history / Susan M. Reverby and Dorothy O. Helly
The cloistering of medieval nuns : release or repression, reality or fantasy? / Penelope D. Johnson
Beyond harem walls : Ottoman royal women and the exercise of power / Leslie P. Peirce
Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy : the clash between craft traditions and professional science / Londa Schiebinger
Sense and sensibility : a case study of women's reading in late Victorian America / Barbara Sicherman
In and around the lighthouse : working-class lesbian bar culture in the 1950s and 1960s / Janet Kahn and Patricia A. Gozemba
Safety and danger : women on American public transport, 1750-1850 / Patricia Cline Cohen
Disordered bodies/disorderly acts : medical discourse and the female criminal in nineteenth-century Paris / Ann-Louise Shapiro
The unruly woman of the Paris commune / Gay L. Gullickson ₆ True women, real men : gender, ideology, and social roles in the Garvey movement / Barbara Bair
Learning to live "just like white folks" : gender, ethnicity, and the state in the inland northwest / Dolores Janiewski
Women in the public sphere in early modern England : the case of the urban working poor / Diane Willen
Good and bad mothers : lady philanthropists and London housewives before World War I / Ellen Ross
Federal help for mothers : the rise and fall of the Sheppard-Towner Act in the 1920s / Molly Ladd-Taylor
A right not to be beaten : the agency of battered women, 1880-1960 / Linda Gordon
The Black community and the birth control movement / Jessie M. Rodrique
The just price, the free market, and the value of women / Alice Kessler-Harris
The masculinization of production : the gendering of work and skill in U.S. newspaper printing, 1850-1920 / Ava Baron
Between Taylorism and denatalite : women welfare supervisors and the boundaries of difference in French metalworking factories, 1917-1930 / Laura Lee Downs
Family, work, and community : southern and eastern European immigrant women speak from the Connecticut Federal Writers' Project / Laura Anker
Sexism by a subtler name? : postindustrial conditions and postfeminist consciousness in the Silicon Valley / Judith Stacey.