PART ONE: IMPERIAL/NATIONAL FEMINISMS. Introduction -- Nahnebahwequa -- Catherine Sutton From "For a reference" (c. 1860) -- Lucy Waterbury The Universal Sisterhood (189?) -- Lady Ishbel Gordon, Countess of Aberdeen "Address from the National Council of Women of Canada to Her Majesty the Queen" (1897) -- Henriette Forget "The Indian Women of the Western Provinces" (1900) -- E. Pauline Johnson -- Tekahionwake "The Iroquois Women of Canada" (1900) -- Lally Bernard "The Ladies Empire Club of London" (1904) -- Letter from a Jamaican Immigrant to Lady Aberdeen (1910) -- Bessie Bullen-Perry From From Halifax to Vancouver (1912) -- Gertrude Richardson "My Canadian Letter" (1915) -- Woman's Century Editorial, "India and Canada" (1915) -- Constance Boulton "Our Imperial Obligations" (1915) -- Anonymous "Nationalism and Racialism" (1918) -- Henrietta Muir Edwards "Imperial or National?" (1918) -- British Commonwealth League "Resolutions Passed at the Conference on Citizen Rights of Women within the British Empire, July 9th and 10th 1925" (1925) -- Florence Custance "The Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire Discuss Weighty Problems" (1926) -- Cairine Wilson "Address to the Annual Meeting of the Women's Teacher's Federation" (1940).

PART TWO: INTERNATIONALISM. Introduction -- Toronto Ladies' Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Fugitives "American Slavery" (1853) -- Mary Ann Shadd Cary "A Bazaar in Toronto for Frederick Douglass' Paper, &c." (1854) -- Mary Ann Shadd Cary "Lectures" (1855) -- Margaret Munn "What is a Light Line Union? A Catechism" (188?) -- Letitia Youmans Organized Women's Temperance Comes to Canada -- 1874 (1893) -- Robertine Barry "When Will We See [Women in Universities]?" (1895) -- Harriet Boomer Address to the Conference of the International Council of Women (1899) -- Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire "The Indian Committee" (1913) -- Laura Saunders, ed. "Canada and Japan in Combination" (1915) -- Kate A. Foster From The Canadian Mosaic, "Friendship House in Winnipeg" (1926) -- Woman Worker Editorial, "International Women's Day Celebrations of To-day" (1928) -- Canadian Working Women's Delegation "Soviet Union Inspires Canadian Working Women" (1930) -- Anna Mokry Excerpt from Reiniscences (c. 1910s-1930s) -- Letter from Mary McGeachy to Violet McNaughton (1931) -- "Goodwill" [illustration] (1937) -- Dorothy Heneker "What Women's Organizations are Sponsoring Today in Geneva" (1939) -- Cairine Wilson "Message for the Newsletter of the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs" (1938).

PART FIVE: MORAL REFORM, SEXUALITY, AND BIRTH CONTROL. Introduction -- Women's Christian Association of the City of Halifax "The Women's Home of Halifax" (1880) -- Letter from Emma Crosby to Mrs H.M. Leland, Secretary of the Hamilton Women's Missionary Society (1881) -- Lady Julia Drummond Age of Consent (1896) -- Jessie C. Smith "Social Purity" (1898) -- Dora Forster (Kerr) From Sex Radicalism (1905) -- Anonymous "The White Slave Trade in Montreal" (1913) -- Beatrice Brigden 223 "One Woman's Campaign for Social Purity and Social Reform" (1913-1920) -- Una Saunders From The Young Women's Christian Association in Canada and Its Work (1919) -- Florence Rowe "Better and Fewer Babies" (1924) -- Helen Macmurchy "What Are We Going to Say to Our Young People?" (1934) -- Winnifred Kydd "Miss Kydd's Statement on Birth Control" (1934).

PART SEVEN: PACIFISM. Introduction -- Margaret Mckay "Report of Provincial Superintendent on Peace Arbitration" (1896) -- Ontario Women's Christian Temperance Union Resolution Regarding the South African War (1899) -- National Council of Women of Canada Resolution and Discussion Regarding Canadian Contingent to the Transvaal (1899) -- M. Gomar White "Peace and Arbitration" (1907) -- Flora Macdonald Denison War and Women (1914) -- Adelaide Plumptre Letter Regarding Canadian Involvement in the Women's Peace Conference (1915) -- Julia Grace Wales A Participant's View on the Women's Peace Conference at the Hague (1915) -- Gertrude Richardson "The Cruelty of Conscription: A Letter to Women" (1917) -- Rose Henderson From Woman and War (192?) -- Hilda C. Laird "League of Nations" (1932) -- Laura Jamieson Developing Public Opinion on Peace (1937) -- "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" [illustration] (1937).