1. Introduction: Women's Scholarship Within and Outside the Academy, 1870-1960 / Hilda L. Smith
Part I. Women and the Medieval and Early Modern Economy : 2. Ellen Annette McArthur: Establishing a Presence in the Academy / Amy Louise Erickson
3. Alice Clark's Critique of Capitalism / Tim Stretton
4. Julia Cherry Spruill, Historian of Southern Colonial Women / Anna Suranyi
Part II. Politics and Citizenship in Early Modern Britain : 5. "No Leisure for Myself": C.C. Stopes and British Freewomen / Hilda L. Smith
6. C.V. Wedgwood: The Historian and the World / Melinda S. Zook
7. Caroline Robbins: An Anglo-American Historian / Lois G. Schwoerer
Part III. Women and Modern Politics : 8. Arvède Barine: History, Modernity, and Feminism / Whitney Walton
9. The Historian and the Empress: Isabel de Madariaga's Catherine the Great / Willard Sunderland
10. Eleanor Flexner: Civil Rights and Feminist Activism and Writing / M. Christine Anderson
Part IV. Alternate Paths to Historical Scholarship : 11. Women's Literary History in Late Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century France: Louise de Kéralio and Henriette Guizot de Witt / Mihoko Suzuki
12. Ruth Benedict: An Anthropologist's Historical Writings / Tracy Teslow
13. Nancy Mitford: Lessons for Historians from a Best-Selling Author / Judith P. Zinsser
Part V. Conclusion : 14. Conclusion: Understanding Women Historians' Lives and Scholarly Reputations Both Within and Outside the Academy / Bonnie G. Smith