Introduction: Tyranny and mutability in the idea of woman
Woman in Seventeenth-century America
Woman, lady, and not a woman in the eighteenth century
Daughters of liberty: woman and a war of independence
Woman enters the public sphere: the nineteenth century
Nineteenth-century woman leaves home
Woman goes to college and enters the professions
The struggle to transform woman into citizen
The "New Woman" and "new women" in a new cintury
"It's sex o'clock in America"
Woman on a seesaw: the Depression and World War II
Sending her back to the place where God had set her: woman in the 1950s
A new "new woman" emerges (carrying baggage): the 1960s
Radical women and the radical woman
How sex spawned a new "woman": the 1990s
"Woman" in a new millennium
Epilogue: the end of "woman"?
