Women and American politics, 1880-1920 -- Varieties of voluntarism -- Gender and trade unionism in historical perspective -- Political implications of black and white women's work in the South, 1890-1965 -- Power surrendered, power restored : the politics of work and family among hispanic garment workers in California and Florida -- Across the great divide : women in politics before and after 1920 -- Women and citizenship in the 1920s -- In politics to stay : black women leaders and party politics in the 1920s -- Women in party politics -- On the origins of political disunity among women -- American women in the 1950s -- Religion : inhibitor or facilitator of political involvement among women? -- Organizing for the ERA -- Representing women in Washington -- Mobilization of members in women's associations.

Gender, race, and class origins of early welfare policy and the welfare state -- Women, family, and politics : farmer-labor women and social policy in the great depression -- From protection to equal opportunity : the revolution in women's legal status -- Women and divorce reform -- Freedom, fantasy, foes, and feminism -- Two worlds of women of the new right -- Women in American politics.