Women's quest for the vote Kent argues, was indissolubly linked with other feminist demands for reform which would overturn the cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity and determined their powerlessness in both public and private.

Introduction; Chapter 1 "The Sex"; Chapter 2 Prostitution; Chapter 3 Marriage; Chapter 4 The Doctors; Chapter 5 The Law; Chapter 6 Sex War; Chapter 7 Suffrage;