Legacies of difficult women: the story of this book;
Imagining the good society: from economic facts to utopian fictions;
Settlement sociology: discovering social science;
Municipal housekeeping: women clean up the cities;
Sanitary science: putting the science into housework;
'Peace is too small a word for all this': women peace makers;
'Our cosmic patriotism': diversity and the dangers of nationalism;
Deeds, not words: women reformers and healthcare;
Dangerous trades: reforming industrial labour;
Domestic relations: female attachments, homes, and the trouble with marriage;
New deals: women reformers in the 1920s and 1930s;
Ways of forgetting: women reformers as missing persons.