Acknowledgments, Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter II: The Metaphors of Freedom: Republican Ideology and Women's Rights in the Plays by Mercy Otis Warren and Susanna Haswell Rowson, Chapter III: Industrial Capitalism and the Status of Middle-Class Women in Mid-nineteenth-century American Family: Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion (1845) and Sidney F. Bateman's Self(1856), Chapter IV: Gender Perspective and Ideology in Frances Wright's Altoif(l819) and Julia W. Howe's Leonora (1857), Chapter V: Conclusion, Appendix, Works Cited, Index