234 pages
19 photographs, 1 illustration, index
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Women in Early Omaha
1. Education
2. Founding Creighton University and Duchesne
3. Native American Women
Interlude 1: The “New Women” of the Gilded Age
4. Votes for Omaha Women
5. Prostitution in Wide-Open Omaha
6. Health Care
7. Human Services
8. Culture and the Arts
Interlude 2: From World War I to World War II
9. Business
10. Restaurants and Bakeries
11. Sports
Interlude 3: Postwar to the Women’s Movement
12. Law
13. Government
14. Civil Rights
15. After the Women’s Movement
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index