1. Immigrants to paradise: white women in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake.
2. Goodwives and bad: New England women in the seventeenth century.
3. The sisters of Pocahontas: native American women in the centuries of colonization.
4. In the "Babel of confusion": women in the middle colonies.
5. The rhythms of labor: African-American women in Colonial society.
6. The rise of gentility: class and regional differences in the eighteenth century.
7. "Beat of drum and ringing of bell": women in the American Revolution.
Epilogue. Fair daughters of Columbia: white women in the new republic.
