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