| Volume 1 | | |
| | Acknowledgements | vii |
| | Introduction | ix |
| Part I | Imagining the Woman in Business and Imaging the Firm | |
| 1. | 'Will There Ever Be A Feminist Business History?' | 3 |
| 2. | 'What is a Firm? A Historical Perspective', European Economic Review, 36, 483-92 (1992) | 45 |
| 3. | 'Why Women Succeed in Business', North American Review, CCXXVI (846), August, 158-66 (1928) | 55 |
| Part II | Women, Property and the Law | |
| A | Women as the Object of Property: Inequality under the Law | |
| 4. | 'Conventional Mentality: Free Blacks, Women, and Business Corporations as Unequal Persons, 1820-1870', Journal of American History, 76 (3), December, 753-84 (1989) | 69 |
| 5. | 'Home as Work: The First Woman's Rights Claims Concerning Wives' Household Labor, 1850-1880', Yale Law Journal, 103 (5), March, 1073-1217 (1994) | 101 |
| B | Property Owners and Investors | |
| 6. | 'Marriage and Property in Premodern Japan From the Perspective of Women's History', translated by Suzanne Gay, Journal of Japanese Studies, 10 (1), Winter, 77-99 (1984) | 249 |
| 7. | 'Gender and Property Rights: Capital, Kin, and Owner Influence in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Sweden', Business History, 35 (2), April, 11-32 (1993) | 272 |
| 8. | 'Property Owning Free African-American Women in the South, 1800-1870', Journal of Women's History, 1 (3), Winter, 13-44 (1990) | 294 |
| Part III | In the Family Way: Family Business, Family Firms and Company Culture | |
| 9. | 'Power, Class, and Family: Men and Women in the Mexican Elite, 1750-1810', The Americas, XXXIX (3), January, 359-81 (1983) | 329 |
| 10. | '"The Hidden Investment": Women and the Enterprise', in Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850, Chapter 6, London: Hutchinson, 272-315, 511-18 (1987) | 352 |
| 11. | 'The Creation of a Company Culture: Cadburys, 1861-1931', American Historical Review, 92 (1), February, 13-44 (1987) | 404 |
| 12. | 'The House that Parcheesi Built: Selchow & Righter Company', Business History Review, 60 (3), Autumn, 410-37 (1986) | 436 |
| Part IV | The Business of Invention and Innovation: Women and Technological Change | |
| 13. | 'Hypatia in the Patent Office: Women Inventors and the Law, 1865-1900', American Journal of Legal History, XXXV (3), July, 235-306 (1991) | 467 |
| 14. | 'Female Physiology, Technology and Women's Liberation', in Martha Moore Trescott (ed.), Dynamos and Virgins Revisited: Women and Technological Change in History, Metuchen, NJ and London: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 236-51 (1979) | 539 |
| 15. | 'Gender and Innovation: Farming, Cooking and Palm Processing in the Ngwa Region, South-Eastern Nigeria, 1900-1930', Journal of African History, 25 (4), 411-27 (1984) | 555 |
| | Bibliography | 573 |
| | Name Index | 643 |
| Volume 2 | | |
| | Acknowledgements | vii |
| | Introduction | ix |
| Part I | The Business of Farming: Farm Owners, Managers and Workers | |
| 1. | 'The Art of Women and the Business of Men: Women's Work and the Dairy Industry c. 1740-1840', Past and Present, 130, February, 142-69 (1991) | 3 |
| 2. | 'Women as Agricultural Landowners: What Do We Know About Them?', Agricultural History, 67 (2), Spring, 235-61 (1993) | 31 |
| 3. | 'Agricultural Productivity Gaps: A Case Study of Male Preference in Government Policy Implementation', Development and Change, 9 (3), July, 439-57 (1978) | 58 |
| Part II | She Merchants, Market Women and Traders All | |
| 4. | 'Men, Women, and Trade', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 13 (3), July, 247-69 (1971) | 79 |
| 5. | 'Women in the Market Place: Oxfordshire c. 1690-1800', Midland History, IX, 23-42 (1984) | 102 |
| 6. | 'The Role of Native Women in the Fur Trade Society of Western Canada, 1670-1830', Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, VII (3), 9-13 (1984) | 122 |
| 7. | 'Women Merchants in Colonial New York', New York History, LVIII (4), October, 412-39 (1977) | 127 |
| 8. | 'Paltry Peddlers or Essential Merchants? Women in the Distributive Trades in Early Modern Nuremberg', Sixteenth Century Journal, XII (2), 3-13 (1981) | 155 |
| 9. | 'To Be In Between: The Cholas as Market Women', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 31 (4), October, 694-721 (1989) | 166 |
| Part III | In Service for Others and Ourselves: Women in Service and Manufacturing Industries | |
| A | The 'Good' Businesses: Printing, Publishing, Banking, Finance, Insurance, Wholesale and Retail - and Philanthropy | |
| 10. | 'Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke', Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14 (3), 610-33 (1989) | 199 |
| 11. | 'A Precarious Independence: Milliners and Dressmakers in Boston, 1860-1890', Journal of Women's History, 4 (1), Spring, 60-88 (1992) | 223 |
| 12. | 'Gender, Self, and Work in the Life Insurance Industry, 1880-1930', in Ava Baron (ed.), Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor, Chapter 7, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 168-90 (1991) | 252 |
| 13. | 'Business Ladies: Midwestern Women and Enterprise, 1850-1880', Journal of Women's History, 3 (1), Spring, 65-89 (1991) | 275 |
| B | 'Hers' and 'His': Artisans and Manufacturers | |
| 14. | 'The Shaping of Women's Work in Manufacturing: Guilds, Households, and the State in Central Europe, 1648-1870', American Historical Review, 90 (5), December, 1122-48 (1985) | 303 |
| 15. | 'The Economic Role of Women in Seventeenth-Century France', French Historical Studies, 16 (2), Fall, 436-70 (1989) | 330 |
| 16. | 'Making Faces: The Cosmetics Industry and the Cultural Construction of Gender, 1890-1930', Genders, 7, Spring, 143-69 (1990) | 365 |
| 17. | 'The Democratization of Fashion: The Emergence of the Women's Dress Pattern Industry', Journal of American History, 66 (2), September, 299-313 (1979) | 392 |
| C | 'Evil Businesses': Prostitution | |
| 18. | 'Chinese Immigrant Women in Nineteenth-Century California', in Carol Ruth Berkin and Mary Beth Norton (eds), Women of America: A History, Chapter 9, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 224-44 (1979) | 409 |
| 19. | '"Itinerant Gold Mines": Prostitution in the Cross River Basin of Nigeria, 1930-1950', African Studies Review, 34 (2), September, 57-79 (1991) | 430 |
| | Name Index | 453 |
| Volume 3 | | |
| | Acknowledgements | ix |
| | Introduction | xiii |
| Part I | Male Managers and Female Workers in the Firm | |
| A | Work, Business and Industrialization | |
| 1. | 'What Difference did Women's Work Make to the Industrial Revolution?', History Workshop, 35, Spring, 22-44 (1993) | 5 |
| 2. | 'The Economic Status of Women in the Early Republic: Quantitative Evidence', Journal of Interdisciplinary History, XVI (3), Winter, 375-404 (1986) | 28 |
| B | Managerial, Family and Worker Strategies | |
| 3. | 'Women's Labor Force Participation and the Decline of the Family Economy in the United States', Explorations in Economic History, 17 (1), January, 95-117 (1980) | 61 |
| 4. | 'When Women Were Switches: Technology, Work, and Gender in the Telephone Industry, 1890-1920', American Historical Review, 99 (4), October, 1075-111 (1994) | 84 |
| 5. | 'The Skilled Emigrant and Her Kin: Gender, Culture, and Labour Recruitment', Canadian Historical Review, LXVIII (4), 529-51 (1987) | 121 |
| 6. | 'Women's Work and Women's Property: Household Social Relations in the Maraka Textile Industry of the Nineteenth Century', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 26 (2), April, 229-50 (1984) | 144 |
| 7. | 'Redefining "Women's Work": The Sexual Division of Labor in the Auto Industry During World War II', Feminist Studies, 8 (2), Summer, 337-72 (1982) | 166 |
| 8. | 'The Gender Earnings Gap: Some International Evidence', in Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz (eds), Differences and Changes in Wage Structures, Chapter 3, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 105-43 (1995) | 202 |
| C | Working the Law | |
| 9. | 'Telling Stories About Women and Work: Judicial Interpretations of Sex Segregation in the Workplace in Title VII Cases Raising the Lack of Interest Argument', Harvard Law Review, 103 (8), June, 1749-843 (1990) | 243 |
| Part II | Market Makers and Managers of Consumption: Female Desire and Demand in the Making of Consumption Culture | |
| 10. | 'The Backward Art of Spending Money', American Economic Review, II (2), June, 269-81 (1912) | 341 |
| 11. | 'The Cinderella of Occupations: Managing the Work of Department Store Saleswomen, 1900-1940', Business History Review, LV (1), Spring, 1-25 (1981) | 354 |
| 12. | 'Credit, Consumption, and Images of Women's Desires: Selling the Sewing Machine in Late Nineteenth-Century France', French Historical Studies, 18 (3), Spring, 749-83 (1994) | 379 |
| Part III | The Organization Woman | |
| 13. | 'Women and the Structure of Organizations: Explorations in Theory and Behavior', in Marcia Millman and Rosabeth Moss Kanter (eds), Another Voice: Feminist Perspectives on Social Life and Social Science, Chapter 2, Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 34-74 (1975) | 417 |
| 14. | 'Woman's Place is at the Typewriter: The Feminization of the Clerical Labor Force', Radical America, 8 (4), July-August, 1-28 (1974) | 458 |
| Part IV | Making The Managerial Woman | |
| A | Scientific Managers in the Home and Firm | |
| 15. | 'Lillian Gilbreth and the Science of Management, 1900-1920', Essays in Economic and Business History, VII, 25-39 (1989) | 491 |
| 16. | '"Housework Made Easy": The Taylorized Housewife in Weimar Germany's Rationalized Economy', Feminist Studies, 16 (3), Fall, 549-77 (1990) | 506 |
| 17. | 'Part of the Package: Home Economists in the Consumer Products Industries, 1920-1940', in Sarah Stage and Virginia B. Vincenti (eds), Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1-21 (reset) (1997) | 535 |
| B | The Managerial Rut and Feminine Mystique | |
| 18. | 'In the Beginning: A History of Women in Management', in Ellen A. Fagenson (ed.), Women in Management: Trends, Issues and Challenges in Managerial Diversity, Volume 4: Women and Work, Chapter 2, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 19-51 (1993) | 559 |
| 19. | 'Management Women and the New Facts of Life', Harvard Business Review, 89 (1), January-February, 65-76 (1989) | 592 |
| 20. | 'Competitive Frontiers: Women Managing Across Borders', in Nancy J. Adler and Dafna N. Izraeli (eds), Competitive Frontiers: Women Managers in a Global Economy, Chapter 2, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 22-40 (1994) | 604 |
| 21. | 'Ways Women Lead', Harvard Business Review, November-December, 119-25 (1990) | 623 |
| Part V | Making The Businesswoman A Feminist | |
| 22. | 'From Executive to Feminist: The Business Women's Legislative Council of Los Angeles, 1927-1932', Essays in Economic and Business History, VII, 60-75 (1989) | 633 |
| 23. | 'Business Ownership and Women's Subordination: A Preliminary Study of Female Proprietors', Sociological Review, 31 (4), November, 625-48 (1983) | 649 |
| 24. | 'The New Corporate Feminism', The Nation, 236 (5), 5 February, 142-3, 146-7 (reset) (1983) | 673 |
| | Name Index | 679 |