Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Revolution 5
Across The Pond 5
The old ways 7
The end of the cottage industry 9
The Revolution 11
Sparks In America 12
Slater the Traitor 12
The cotton gin 14
A burning fire of industry and development 15
Mother Leaves Home 18
Shameful conditions 19
Chapter 2 The Girls Of Lowell Mill 21
The Mill 22
Factory Girls 25
The long work day 26
A room and a bed 28
Women, Unite! 31
Chapter 3 Margaret Knight 37
Mattie At The Mill 37
The Folding Bag Machine 40
Patents, Plaques, And Bragging Rights 44
Chapter 4 "The Witch Of Wall Street" 47
Poor Little Rich Girl 47
Hetty 48
Hetty The Investor 51
Children and Collapse 54
The World's Greatest Miser? 56
Later life 58
The legacy 59
Chapter 5 The Woman Behind Monopoly 61
Little Lizzie 61
The Landlord's Game 64
Playing Parker Brothers 70
Chapter 6 More Ingenious Women 75
Tabitha Babbitt And The Circular Saw 75
Martha Coston Lights Up The Navy 78
Mary And The Trains 83
Josephine Cochrane's Dish Problem 87
Chapter 7 The Glittering Girls of World War I 93
Radium Rocks the World 95
Glittering Ghost Girls 96
Sickness and death 100
The Big Fight 102
One More Girl 105
Chapter 8 Fight Club 109
Unions 109
Suffrage 112
Guides and Scouts 114
Women in the Military 114
The War of Independence 115
The Civil War 116
The World Wars 118
Skirts and Politics 120
Lucretia Mott 121
Harriet Beecher Stowe 121
Dorothea Dix 123
Local and Federal Office Firsts 124
Chapter 9 Post-War Innovative Women 127
Diaper Duty 127
Bulletproof 129
The Chocolate Chip Cookie 132
Anne's Mail Order Catalog 133
Chapter 10 Heirlooms of the Industrial Age 135
Progressive Women Now 136
Tracking with Tesla 137
Alice Zhang 137
Microsoft's mathematician 138
Lori Greiner 138
Progressive power 139
The Future Looks Bright 139
Conclusion 143
Author's Note 147
Glossary 149
Bibliography 157
Index 165
About the Author 167
