We will be heard: women's struggles for political power in the United States

Prologue : the search for political woman

The Iowa origins of organized Republican women

"One man, one vote, one woman, one throat" : women in New York City politics, 1890-1910

The rise of political woman in the election of 1912

All the way for the ERA : winning and losing in Virginia

The women who ran for president

Ruth Bryan Owen : Florida's first congresswoman

Marion Martin of Maine : a mother of Republican women

Gender gaps in presidential elections

Feminism and antifeminism in the Republican and Democratic Parties

Gender representation in the Democratic and Republican Parties

"Equality" vs. "protection" : setting the agenda after suffrage

How "sex" got into Title VII : persistent opportunism as a maker of public policy

Congressional passage of the Equal Rights Amendment

Comparable worth

Epilogue: the long road to Madame Speaker.