Prologue: American women in the twentieth century / Pat Kirkham, Sara A. Lichtman, and Eileen Boris
Women designers in the USA, 1900-2000: diversity and difference / Pat Kirkham and Lynne Walker
Women designers and the Arts and Crafts Movement / Wendy Kaplan
The sacred hoop: Native American women designers / Pamela Kladzyk
"Three strikes against me": African American women designers / Pat Kirkham and Shauna Stallworth
"Wellpaying self support": women textile designers in the USA / Mary Schoeser and Whitney Blausen
Tradition and transformation: women quilt designers / Jacqueline M. Atkins
Women fashioning American fashion / Valerie Steele
Women jewelry designers / Toni Greenbaum and Pat Kirkham
Women metalsmiths / Jeannine Falino
Designing Hollywood: women costume and production designers / Deborah Nadoolman Landis and Pat Kirkham
In "A man's world": women industrial designers / Ella Howard and Eric Setliff
Women furniture makers: from decorative designers to studio makers / Edward S. Cooke Jr.
"A woman's place ... "?: women interior designers
1900-1950 / Pat Kirkham and Penny Sparke
1950-2000 / Judith B. Gura
Women landscape designers / Leslie Rose Close
"Quietly fine"/Quietly subversive: women ceramic designers / Cheryl Buckley
Colophon: women graphic designers / Ellen Lupton.