Sect. 1. My Story Ends With Freedom -- From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897) -- From Dust Tacks on a Road / Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960) -- From My Lord, What a Morning / Marian Anderson (1902- ) -- From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou (1928- ) -- Sect. 2. Research Is a Passion With Me: Women Scientists and Physicians -- From A History of Psychology in Autobiography / Margaret Floy Washburn (1871-1939) -- From Fighting for Life / S. Josephine Baker (1873-1945) -- From Unpublished Memoir / Dorothy Reed Mendenhall (1874-1964) -- From Research is a Passion with Me / Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974) -- From Stranger and Friend / Hortense Powdermaker (1896-1970) -- From An Autobiography and Other Recollections / Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979) -- From Blackberry Winter / Margaret Mead (1901-1978) -- Sect. 3. Arts and Letters -- From A New England Girlhood / Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) -- From On Journey / Vida Dutton Scudder (1861-1954) -- From Modeling my Life / Janet Scudder (1869-1940).

From The Woman Within / Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1873-1945) -- From Journey Around My Room / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) -- From Portrait of Myself / Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) -- From The Woman Warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston (1940- ) -- Sect. 4. Pioneers and Reformers -- From The Story of a Pioneer / Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) -- From Twenty Years at Hull-House / Jane Addams (1860-1935) -- From My Days of Strength / Anne Walter Fearn (1865-1939) -- From Margaret Sanger / Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) -- From I Change Worlds / Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970) -- From This Life I've Led / Mildred Ella (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias (1914-1956) -- From Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions / Gloria Steinem (1934- ).