Intro; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: The Exploding Western Metropolis Carving Out a City on the Bluffs, 1856 to 1870; Chapter Two: The Quality and Equality of Mercy Are Strained The Rise and Fall of the Female-Led General Relief Agency, 1870 to 1879; Chapter Three: ""Back to Their Friends"" The Reluctant Response of Male-Led Relief, 1880 to the Eve of the World War; Chapter Four: ""Idiots, Imbeciles, Slaves and Women"" Women's Activism in Kansas City, 1880 to World War I
Chapter Five: Morally and Legally Entitled Women's Political Activism in the Interwar Period in Kansas CityConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
