Section I. Women and washing. Washing household linens and linen clothing in 1627 Plymouth / Maureen Richard
Section II. Women and agriculture. Increase and vantage: Women, cows, and the agricultural economy of Colonial New England / Pamela J. Snow
Constance Strong's diary: Women's work in North Pomfret, Vermont, 1910-1920 / Cameron Clifford
Section III. Women as producers of textiles and clothing. "That leisure hour I seldon find": Hannah Hayden's work and family economy in frontier New York, 1806-1822 / Amber Degn
"The fruit of my industry": economic roles and marital conflict in New England, 1790-1830 / Mary Beth Sievens
One in every village: women in Maine who knit for others / Robin Hansen
Section IV. Women in industry and communications. Number, please: New Hampshire Predial Telephone operators, 1877-1920 / Judith Moyer
Section V. Abolitionists, missionaries, and memory makers. "We have all something to do in the cause of freeing the slave": The abolition work of Mary White / Mary B. Fuhrer
A New England goodwife laboring in Oregon: Mary Richardson Walker, missionary pioneer / Judith M. Knowles
Nantucket's memory keepers: Eliza Ann McCleave and the women of the Nantucket Historical Association / Aimee E. Newell
Section VI. Gendered roles in healing and childbirth. The housewife as healer: medicine as women's work in Colonial New England / Rebecca J. Tannenbaum
Women's travail, men's labor: birth stories from eighteenth-century New England diaries / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Section VII. Children and Servants. Eggs on the sand: Domestic servants and their children in Federal New England / Marla R. Miller
Polish: The maintenance of manners / J. Coral Woodbury.