Acknowledgments -- American Women Writers and the Periodical: Creating a Constituency, Opening a Dialogue -- Social and political advocacy -- Margaret Fuller's Tribune Dispatches and the Nineteenth-Century Body Politic by -- Gendering Gilded Age Periodical Professionalism: Reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Hearth and Home Prescriptions for Women's Writing By Sarah Robbins -- Parental Guidance: Disciplinary Intimacy and the Rise of Women's Regionalism by Janet Gebhart Auten -- Kate Chopin and the Periodical: Revisiting the Re-Vision by Bonnie James Shaker -- Gender roles, social expectations, and the woman writer -- The Heroine of Her Own Story: Subversion of Traditional Periodical Marriage Tropes in the Short Fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Forerunner by Aleta Feinsod Cane -- Emma Goldman, Mother Earth, and the Little Magazine Impulse in Modern America by Craig Monk -- "An Ardor That Was Human, and a Power That Was Art": Rebecca Harding Davis and the Art of the Periodical by Michele L. Mock -- Refashioning the periodical -- Lowell's Female Factory Workers, Poetic Voice, and the Periodical by Susan Alves -- Redefining the Borders of Local Color Fiction: María Cristina Mena's Short Stories in the Century Magazine by Amy Doherty -- Zitkala-Sä and the Commercial Magazine Apparatus by Charles Hannon -- "A Deeper Purpose" in the Serialized Novels of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper by Michelle Campbell Toohey -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.