Transcending the new woman: multiethnic narratives in the Progressive Era

Introduction: The New Woman and progressive America

Suffragist or "squaw"? : S. Alice Callahan's and Mourning Dove's mediations of feminism and Indian rights

From race women to an erased woman : Pauline Hopkins's nonfiction polemic and novelistic ambivalence

A view from the border : Sui Sin Far's interrogation of the progressive new woman

"The highly original country of the Yanquis" : María Cristina Mena and American womanhood

Escaping the "Torah-made world ": the fiction of Anzia Yezierska

Conclusion.