I. How American women got enfranchised. The loves and living arrangements of nineteenth-century suffrage leaders
Bringing the suffrage movement into the twentieth century : Anna Howard Shaw
Victory : Carrie Chapman Catt
. II. How America got a social conscience. Mother-hearts/lesbian-hearts
Social housekeeping : the inspiration of Jane Addams
Social housekeeping becomes a profession : Frances Kellor
Poisoning the source. III. How American women got educated. "Mental hermaphrodites" : pioneers in women's education
Making women's higher education even higher : M. Carey Thomas
The struggle to maintain women's leadership : Mary Emma Woolley
The triumph of Angelina : education in femininity. IV. How American women got into the professions. "When more women enter professions" : lesbian pioneering in the learned professions
Making places for women in medicine : Emily Blackwell
Carrying on : Martha May Eliot, M.D.
The rush to bake the pies and have the babies.