Queens of the household: the Jewish women of British America, 1700-1800 / Holly Snyder -- The exceptional and the mundane: a biographical portrait of Rebecca Machado Phillips (1746-1831) / Aviva Ben-Ur -- Shifting veils: religion, politics, and womanhood in the Civil War writings of American Jewish women / Dianne Ashton -- The public religious lives of Cincinnati's Jewish women / Karla Goldman -- From domestic Judaism to public ritual: women and religious identity in the American west / William Toll -- From priestess to hostess: sisterhoods of personal service in New York City: 1887-1936 / Felicia Herman -- Between race and religion: Jewish women and self-definition in late-nineteenth-century America / Eric L. Goldstein -- Mitzvah and medicine: gender, assimilation, and the scientific defense of "family purity" / Beth S. Wenger -- The road to bat mitzvah in America / Regina Stein -- Ambassadors without portfolio? The religious leadership of Rebbetzins in late-twentieth-century American Jewish life / Shuly Rubin Schwartz -- Justine Wise Polier and the prophetic tradition / Joyce Antler -- Feminism and American Judaism: looking back at the turn of the century / Deborah E. Lipstadt.