Women of ideas: and what men have done to them from Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich

Introduction : Why I didn't know

Objections : Sustained and over-ruled

Mocking our minds

Harassment

Aphra Behn : A case study

Part One. Mary Wollstonecraft and her foremothers : Alone or together?

Mary, Mary, quite contrary

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Grub street

The bluestockings

Revolution and rebellion

The French connection

Two is a crowd : Catherine Macaulay

Mary Wollstonecraft

Part Two. 1800-1850 : The silent years? : Frances Wright

Harriet Martineau

Harriet Taylor

Margaret Fuller

Anna Jameson

Angelina and Sarah Grimke

Mary Somerville

George Eliot

Part Three. Backwards or forewards? A. North America : The failure of the women's movement

History of Woman Suffrage

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

The third person : Matilda Joslyn Cage

The other side : Lucy Stone

The experience of black women

Clues and curiosity

B. Great Britain : Objections that did not cease : Anna Wheeler

The lady without the lamp : Florence Nightingale

Why not for women? Barbara Bodichon

Justice and patience are not engough : Lydia Becker

Murder and matrimony : Frances Power Cobbe

Let him claim the copyright on this! Caroline Norton

The queen!

Traditional and non-traditional jobs

Hitting a nerve : Women and education

Organization not legislation : Emma Paterson

Sexual economics : Josephine Butler

And still there were more

A life of contradictions : Millicent Garrett Fawcett

Part Four. The Twentieth century : A. Social revolution : Process or event? : Isolation : Emma Goldman

Birth strikes : Margaret Sanger

Cerebration and celebration : Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Equality means the same : Crystal Eastman

Suffrage first : Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman

Nowehere to go

B. Militant and maligned : Decades of denial

The Pankhursts

Recruits : Annie Kenney and Teresa Billington-Greig

Confrontation and confirmation

The treasure : Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence

Sex-war

The delight of defiance

Unable to 'divide and rule'

Emotionalism or objectivity

C. Writing as politics : After the battles

Funding for feminism : Lady Rhondda

On 'showing men up' : Cicely Hamilton

A different documentary : Elizabeth Robbins

Feminism old and new : Winifred Holtby

The whole duty of woman : Vera Brittain

Current culpability : Rebecca West

Interdependence : Olive Schreiner

Remember our heritage : Ray Strachey

Friend or enemy?

Out from under : Dora Russell

Tough politics : Virginia Woolf

Writing with a vengeance

The 'other' politics

D. And when there were none. ... : Woman as force : Mary Ritter Beard

On whose authority? Viola Klein

Men have their cake-and eat it too : Mirra Komarovsky

Selective breeding : Ruth Herschberger

The philosophy of 'wrongness' Simone de Beauvoir

Putting it in perspective : Maregaret Mead

Facing the 1950s

Setting the scene : The 1960s

E. Reinventing rebellion : The old, old story

Payment in kind

Progress or repetition?

Active non-co-operation

Appendix : Life in prison

Chronological table.