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