Using contemporary sources Frisken takes a fresh look at the heyday of this controversial women's rights activist, discovering Woodhull's previously unrecognized importance in the turbulent climate of Radical Reconstruction and making her a useful lens through which to view the shifting sexual mores of the nineteenth century.

Chronology of Events
Introduction. Victoria Woodhull, Sexual Revolutionary
Chapter 1. "The Principles of Social Freedom"
Chapter 2. "A Shameless Prostitute and a Negro"
Chapter 3. The Politics of Exposure
Chapter 4. "Queen of the Rostrum"
Conclusion. The Waning of the Woodhull Revolution
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments