The editors were all organisers of the International Conference on Women's History, held in Amsterdam in March 1986.

• Preface 1. Politics, Identification and the Writing of Women’s History 2. Maria Winkelmann: the Clash between Guild Traditions and Professional Science 3. Female Education and Spiritual Life: the Case of Ministers’ Daughters 4. Brick Stamps and Women’s Economic Opportunities in Imperial Rome 5. Witchcraft in the Northern Netherlands 6. Emancipated Integration or Integrated Emancipation: the Case of Post-revolutionary Yugoslavia 7. Female Culture, Pacifism and Feminism: Women Strike for Peace 8. Gossipy Letters in the Context of International Feminism 9. The Origins of Feminism in Egypt 10. Female Aspiration and Male Ideology: School-teaching in Nineteenth-century New England 11. ‘Embittered, Sexless or Homosexual’: Attacks on Spinster Teachers 1918-39 12. Women’s Psychological Disorders in Seventeenth-century Britain 13. Pygmalion, or the Image of Women in Medieval Literature 14. Whores and Gossips: Sexual Reputation in London 1770-1825 15. On the Origins of Dutch Women’s Historiography: Three Portraits (1840-1970) 16. A Paradigm of Androcentric Historiography: Michelet’s Les femmes de la Revolution 17. Ethnocentrism in the Study of Algerian Women