Introduction : cultures and practices of U.S. women's literacy / Catherine Hobbs
Conduct books for women, 1830-1860 : a rationale for women's conduct and domestic role in America / Jane E. Rose
"In an atmosphere of peril" : college women and their writing / Vickie Ricks
"The voice, pen and influence of our women are abroad in the land" : women and the Illinois State Normal University, 1857-1899 / Sandra D. Harmon
"Let us strive earnestly to value education aright" : Cherokee female seminarians as leaders of a changing culture / Devon A. Mihesuah
His religion and hers in nineteenth-century hymnody / June Hadden Hobbs.
Writing in circles : Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Semi-Colon Club, and the construction of women's authorship / Nicole Tonkovich
Literacy as a tool for social action among nineteenth-century African American women / Shirley Wilson Logan
Mothers, daughters, diaries : literacy, relationship, and cultural context / Judy Nolte Temple and Suzanne L. Bunkers
Women and the western military frontier : Elizabeth Bacon Custer / Maryan Wherry
Cultural models of womanhood and female education : practices of colonization and resistance / P. Joy Rouse
Silks, Congress gaiters, and rhetoric : a Butler University graduate of 1860 tells her story / Heidemarie Z. Weidner.
Radcliffe responses to Harvard rhetoric : "an absurdly stiff way of thinking" / Sue Carter Simmons
"A toast to Jerusha Jane Jones" / [Mary Ashmun]
"Is John smarter than I?" by Jerusha Jane Jones (Rockford Seminary magazine, 1875) / [Julia Lathrop?]
Afterword : revealing the ties that bind? / JoAnn Campbell.
