Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Abbreviations 6
4. Preface 7
5. Acknowledgments 11
6. Introduction 15
7. Chapter One. Women's Rights before the Civil War 21
8. Chapter Two. The Fourteenth Amendment and the American Equal Rights Association 53
9. Chapter Three. The Kansas Campaign of 1867 79
10. Chapter Four. The Search for Allies: The Democratic Party and the National Labor Union 105
11. Chapter Five. The Search for a Constituency: The Working Women's Association 126
12. Chapter Six. The Fifteenth Amendment and the Emergence of Independent Suffragism 162
13. Bibliography 203
14. Index 215