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Introduction. Why didn't I know? ; Objections : sustained and over-ruled ; Mocking our minds ; Harassment ; Aphra Behn : a case study -- 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 ; Catherine Macaulay ; Mary Wollstonecraft -- 1800-1850 the silent years?. Frances Wright ; Harriet Martineau ; Harriet Taylor ; Margaret Fuller ; Anna Jameson ; Angelina and Sarah Grimké ; Mary Somerville ; George Eliot -- Backwards or forwards? North America. The failure of the women's movement ; History of Woman Suffrage ; Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony ; Matilda Joslyn Gage ; Lucy Stone ; The experience of black women ; Clues and curiosity -- Great Britain. Anna Wheeler ; Florence Nightingale ; Barbara Bodichon ; Lydia Becker ; Frances Power Cobbe ; Caroline Norton ; The Queen! ; Traditional and non-traditional jobs ; Hitting a nerve : women and education ; Emma Paterson ; Josephine Butler ; And still there were more ; Millicent Garrett Fawcett -- The twentieth century. Social revolution : process or event?. Emma Goldman ; Margaret Sanger ; Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; Crystal Eastman ; Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman ; Nowhere to go -- Militant and maligned. Decades of denial ; The Pankhursts ; Annie Kenney and Teresa Billington-Greig ; Confrontation and confirmation ; Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence ; Sex-war ; The delight of defiance ; Unable to 'divide and rule' ; Emotionalism or objectivity -- Writing as politics. After the battles ; Lady Rhondda ; Cicely Hamilton ; Elizabeth Robins ; Winifred Holtby ; Vera Brittain ; Rebecca West ; Olive Schreiner ; Ray Strachey ; Friend or enemy? ; Dora Russell ; Virginia Woolf ; Writing with a vengeance ; The 'other' politics -- And when there were none. Mary Ritter Beard ; Viola Klein ; Mirra Komarovsky ; Ruth Herschberger ; Simone de Beauvoir ; Margaret Mead ; Facing the 1950s ; Setting the scene : the 1960s -- Reinventing rebellion. The old, old story ; Payment in kind ; Progress or repetition? ; Active non co-operation.