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Introduction: Aphra Behn - a case study. Part 1: Mary Wollstonecraft and her foremothers: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; Grub Street; the bluestockings; Catherine Macaulay; Part 2 1800-1850 The silent years?: Frances Wright; Harriet Martineau; Harriet Taylor; Margaret Fuller; Anna Jameson; Angelina and Sarah Grimke; Mary Somerville; George Eliot. Part 3 Backwards or forwards?: North America - the failure of the women's movement, history of woman suffrage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Lucy Stone, the experience of black women; Great Britain - Anna Wheeler, Florence Nightingale, Barbara Bodichon, Lydia Becker, Frances Power Cobbe, Caroline Norton, women and education, Emma Paterson, Josephine Butler, Millicent Garrett Fawcett. Part 4 The 20th century: social revolution - process or event? - Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Crystal Eastman, Alice Paul; militant and maligned - the Pankhursts, Annie Kenney and Teresa Billington-Greig, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, sex war; writing as politics - Lady Rhondda, Cicely Hamilton, Elizabeth Robins, Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain, Rebecca West, Olive Schreiner, Ray Strachey, Dora Russell, Virginia Woolf; and when there were none - Mary Ritter Beard, Viola Klein, Mirra Komarovsky, Ruth Herschberger, Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead, facing the 1950s, the 1960s; reinventing rebellion. Appendix: life in prison.