We the women: the hidden heroes who shaped America

Introduction

Part I: The first fifty years: The women behind America's fight for independence, 1776-1826

Mary Katherine Goddard: The printer

Phillis Wheatley: The poet

Mercy Otis Warren: The intellectual

Elizabeth Ellet: The historian

Elizabeth Freeman: The freedom seeker

Deborah Sampson: The war fighter

Patience Lovell Wright: The sculptor

Part II: Risk takers and rulebreakers: Seneca Falls and the Civil War, 1826-1876. The Grimké Sisters: The truth tellers

Charlotte Forten: The abolitionist

The women of Seneca Falls: The signers

The Blackwell Sisters: The doctors

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: The Medal of Honor recipient

Susan and Susette La Flesche: The advocates

Anna Dickinson: The orator

Belva Lockwood: The lawyer

Part three: Blood, sweat, and tears: The Gilded Age and the great demand, 1876-1926. Emily Warren Roebling: The builder

Katharine Wright: The aviator

Inez Milholland: The suffragist

Maddie Lena Walker: The titan of finance

Mary Tape: The determined mother

Zitkala-Ša: The writer

The Hello Girls of World War I: The operators

The Nineteenth Amendment: The vote

Agnes Meyer Driscoll: The codebreaker

Margaret Sanger and Katharine McCormick: The birth control pioneers

Part IV: Warriors, rebels, and visionaries: Women at war at home and abroad, 1926-1976. Mary McLeod Bethune: the first lady of the struggle

Eleanor Roosevelt: The great "agitator"

Frances Perkins: The cabinet member

The Six Triple Eight: The soldiers

The New Orleans Four: The barrier breakers

Romana Acosta Bañuelos: The treasurer

Babe Didrikson: "The greatest athlete who ever lived"

Patsy Mink: The mother of Title IX

Pat Schroeder: The legislator

Constance Baker Motley: The judge

Part V: My lifetime: Women's progress in America, 1976-today.