Part I. On the historiography of women -- Women in society : acritique of Frederick Engels / Ann J. Lane -- Mary Beard's Woman as force in history : a critique / Berenice A. Carroll -- The invisible woman : the historian as professional magician / Dolores Barracano Schmidt and Earl Robert Schmidt -- Historical phallacies : sexism in American historical writing / Linda Gordon [and others] -- The problem of women's history / Ann D. Gordon, Mari Jo Buhle, and Nancy Schrom Dye -- Part II. On ideology, sex, and history -- Gynecology and ideology in seventeenth-century England / Hilda Smith -- Education and ideology in nineteenth-century America : the response of educational institutions to the changing role of women / Adele Simmons -- Feminism and liberalism in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1918 / Amy Hackett -- Feminism and class consciousness in the British and American women's trade union leagues, 1890-1925 / Robin Miller Jacoby -- Latina liberation : tradition, ideology, and social change in Iberian and Latin American cultures / Ann M. Pescatello -- Racism and tradition : black womanhood in historical perspective / Joyce A. Ladner -- The politics of cultural liberation : male-female relations in Algeria / Kay Boals -- Part III. On class, sex, and social change -- A classical scholar's perspective on matriarchy / Sarah B. Pomeroy -- The Cheshire cat : reconstructing the experience of medieval woman / Kathleen Casey -- Women in covenents : their economic and social role in colonial Mexico / Asunción Lavrin -- Sex and class in colonial and nineteenth-century America / Ann D. Gordon and Mari Jo Buhle -- Beyond kinder, küche, kirche : Weimar women in politics and work / Renate Bridenthal and Claudia Koonz -- Women, work, and the social order / Alice Kessler-Harris -- Part IV. Toward a future human past -- New approaches to the study of women in American history / Gerda Lerner -- Placing women in history : a 1975 perspective / Feminism and the methodology of women's history / Four structures in a complex unity / Juliet Mitchell -- "Herstory" as history : a new field or another fad? / Sheila Ryan Johansson