Contents:
PART ONE: THE FOUNDATIONAL DECADES: PROTESTANT WOMEN FROM 1812 TO 1860

1. THE MISSIONARY WIFE
- Background of the Missionary wives
- Missionary motivation and gender
- The Coalescence of women's mission theory

2. THE MISSIONARY WIFE: MODELS AND PRACTICE OF MISSION
- The models: Harriet, Ann, and Roxana
- Missionary Practice: Martyr or failure
- Baptist wives in Burma
- American Board wives in Hawaii
- Cultural context and the creation of Mission theories

3. THE MISSIONARY TEACHER
- The evolution of the mission boarding school
- Mary Lyon and the Systematization of Missionary Preparation
- The collapse of the Lyon-Anderson Consensus
- The missionary teacher comes of age

PART TWO: THE PROTESTANT WOMAN'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT: 1860 TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR

4. "WOMAN'S WORK FOR WOMAN" AND THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
- A woman's missiology: "Woman's work for woman"
- The mission and missionaries of the woman's foreign missionary society
- The woman's foreign missionary society in China
- A woman's theory for world conversion

5. WOMAN AND INDEPENDENT EVANGELICAL MISSIONS
- Woman and the emergence of faith missions
- Faith missions and Africa: Woman of the Africa inland mission
- Woman in Holiness missions
- Woman missionaries and early Pentecostal Missiology
- Evangelism and Gender

6. THE ECUMENICAL WOMAN'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT
- The woman's missionary Jubilee of 1910
- The missiology of World friendship
- The decline of the Woman's missionary movement

PART THREE: ROMAN CATHOLIC WOMAN IN MISSION

7. THE EMERGENCE OF MISSIONARY SISTERS
- America as a mission field
- The founding of women's foreign mission communities
- The society for the propagation of the faith and the Americanization of Catholic Missions
- American women enter the Mission Apostolate: Mary Josephine Rogers and the Foreign Mission Sisters of St. Dominic
- The mission motivations of American Catholic Women

8. FROM AUXILIARY TO MISSIONER
- Catholic Domestic Mission Theory
- Missionary sisters from 1920 to Vatican 2
- Maryknoll Sisters after the Second Vatican Council
- Catholic Women rediscover mission

THE SHAPE OF AMERICAN WOMEN'S MISSION THOUGHT: A CONCLUDING NOTE