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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Maps -- Note -- Foreword -- PART ONE: The Context -- Introduction -- 1 The Colonial legacy -- 2 White Power Grows, Reformer Hopes Fluctuate: the 1770s to the 1850s -- 3 Assimilationist Pressures Mount: the 1860s to 1920 -- 4 The Uncertain Road to Self-Determination: the 1920s to the 1960s -- PART TWO: The Case Studies -- 5 Slavery, Red and Black -- 6 Red, Black and White: Reconstruction and Beyond -- 7 American Indians and American Anthropologists -- 8 Indian Education: Goals and Illusions -- 9 Indian Education in the Twentieth Century -- 10 Indian Women in Fancy and Fact -- 11 Urban Indians since the Second World War -- 12 Indian Political Protest Groups -- Notes and References -- Index.

This book presents a study of the development of the feminist movement in Britain and America during the 19th century. Acknowledging the similar social conditions in both countries during that period, the author suggests that a real sense of distinctiveness did exist between British and American feminists. American feminists were inspired by their own perception of the superiority of their social circumstances, for example, whereas British feminists found their cause complicated by traditional considerations of class. Christine Bolt aims to show that the story of the American and British women