1. I. Gender and the Postwar Constitutional Amendments
A. Constitutionalizing Women’s Rights
1. Fourteenth Amendment and Woman Suffrage
2. Suffrage Movement and Fifteenth Amendment
B. A New Departure for Woman Suffrage
1. NWSA and New Departure
2. Attempts to Vote
3. Campaign for Constitutional Amendment

2. II. Women’s Lives in Southern Reconstruction and Redemption
A. Black Women in the New South
1. Reuniting Families
2. Freedman’s Bureau
3. Sharecropping
4. Education
5. Attacks on Black Male Voters

3. II. Women’s Lives in Southern Reconstruction and Redemption
B. White Women in the New South
1. Impact on Elite, Non-Elite Women
2. New Opportunities
C. Racial Conflict in Slavery’s Aftermath
1. Anti-Black Violence
2. Wells’s Anti-Lynching Campaign
3. Jim Crow Laws

4. III. Female Wage Labor and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism
A. Women’s Occupations after the Civil War
1. Female Workforce
2. Clothing Industry
3. Clerical Work
B. Who Were the Women Wage Earners?
1. Perception on Age, Marital Status
2. Realities

5. III. Female Wage Labor and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism
C. Responses to Working Women
1. Criticism and Sympathy
2. Working Women’s Views
D. Class Conflict and Labor Organization
1. Strikes and Labor Conflicts
2. Knights of Labor
3. Opportunities for Women

6. IV. Women of the Leisured Classes
A. New Sources of Wealth and Leisure
1. Uneven Wealth Distribution
2. Upper- and Middle-Class Women
3. Domestic Help
4. Birthrate in Leisure Class
5. Women’s Sexuality

7. IV. Women of the Leisured Classes
B. The “Woman’s Era”
1. Women’s Clubs and Societies
2. African American Women’s Clubs
3. Women’s Clubs and Woman Suffrage
C. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
1. Largest Women’s Association
2. WCTU and Woman Suffrage

8. IV. Women of the Leisured Classes
D. Consolidating the Gilded Age Women’s Movement
1. International Suffrage Movement
2. NWSA and AWSA Merge
3. African American Women
4. World’s Columbian Exposition
E. Looking to the Future
1. The “New Woman”
2. Cady Stanton’s Views