Native American women / Jeffrey M. Schulze -- Women of the colonial period / Amy Meschke Porter -- Daughters of liberty : women and the American Revolution / Pia Katarina Jakobsson -- Women reformers and radicals in Antebellum America / Julie Holcomb -- School girls and college women : female education in the 19th and early 20th centuries / Andrea Hamilton -- Suffragists / Jessica O'Brien Pursell -- Clubwomen, reformers, workers, and feminists of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Alison M. Parker -- Modern women in the 1920s / Susan Goodier -- Women facing the emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II : women's rights in the 1930s and 1940s / Gillian Nichols-Smith -- Homemakers and activists in the 1950s / Kathleen A. Laughlin -- Feminists of the 1960s and 1970s / Natasha Zaretsky -- Third wave feminists : the ongoing movement for women's rights / Janice Okoomian