Foreword to the Second Edition /Marie Syrkin -- Epilogue to the Second Edition / Beba Idelson -- Introduction to the First Edition / Rahel Kaznelson-Rubashov -- Translator's Note / Maurice Samuel -- Mission Statement of the Pioneer Women's Organization (1932) -- Mission Statement of Pioneer Women (1975) -- Between Text and Context: The Plough Woman in Historical Perspective / Mark A. Raider -- The Plough Woman: Identities in the Making / Miriam B. Raider-Roth -- Pt. I. In the Beginning -- The Collective / Manya Wilbusheviz-Shohat -- Those First Years / Tehiyah Lieberson -- In Sejera / Shifra Bezer -- The Jewish Guard / Haya-Sarah Hankin -- The Founding of Merhavyah / Esther Becker -- With the Shomrim in Galilee / Ziporah Zeid -- My Aliyah to the Land of Israel / Dvorah Dayan -- With a Kvuzah of Shepherds / Rivkah Danit -- From Judea to Samaria / Yehudit Edelman -- I Become a Worker / Batya Brenner -- Pt. II. With the Group -- The Kvuzah of Twenty / Yael Gordon -- On the Run / Hannah Chizhik -- In the Days of Hassan Bek / Frieda Kaznelson -- Twenty-four Hours / Nehamah Zizer -- With A. D. Gordon / Hannah Kaznelson -- A Word to the Legionnaires / Rahel Kaznelson-Shazar -- Behind the Front / Yehudit Brontman -- The Workers' Club / Dvorah Avrahamit -- The Strike in Akko / Malkah -- The Strike in Zikhron Yaakov / Carmelah -- Fighting for Work in Petah Tikvah / Rivkah Broizman -- Destruction of the Havurah in Haifa / Sarah Malkin -- Pt. III. At Work -- Stages / Rahel Yanait Ben-Zvi -- In the Kvuzah / Liliyah Basevich -- The Woman in the Moshav Ovdim / Shoshana Rekhthant-Yafeh -- In Nahalal / Dvorah Dayan -- The Meshek Hapoalot in Nahlat Yehudah / Miriam Shlimovich -- The Tobacco Kvuzuah / Tovah Yafeh -- The Birth of the Havurah / Miriam Shlimovich -- The Havurah of Petah Tikvah / Rivkah Broizman -- Women Build Houses / Tehiyah Lieberson -- The "Independent" Woman / Hannah Chizhik -- Wife of a Haver / Ziporah Bar-Droma -- Pt. IV. With Children -- Fundamental Problems / Nina Rikhter -- Group Upbringing and the Child / Eva Tabenkin -- Children's House and Parents' Room / Eva Tabenkin -- Mothers' Talk / Hasia Kuperminz-Drori -- Borrowed Mothers / Golda Meyerson -- Pt. V. The Departed -- Shoshanah Bogen: Biographical Sketch / R. -- Shoshanah Bogen: Fragments, From the Letters and Notebooks of Shoshanah Bogen -- Shoshanah Bogen: On the Last Words of Shoshanah / Rahel Kaznelson-Shazar -- Dvorah Drakhler: Biographical Sketch / Haya Kroll and Eliezer Kroll -- Sarah Chizhik: Biographical Sketch / Ziporah Zeid -- Sarah Chizhik: Fragments, From the Letters and Diaries of Sarah Chizhik -- Pessie Abramson: Biographical Sketch / Yael Gordon -- Pessie Abramson: Letters of Pessie Abramson -- Sarah Lishansky: Biographical Sketch / Yizhak Ben-Zvi -- Sarah Lishansky: Sarah's Shtetl / Zalman (Rubashov) Shazar -- Rahel Zisle-Levkovich: Biographical Sketch / Lo-Nuham -- Rahel Zisle-Levkovich: Letters of Rahel Zisle-Levkovich -- Pt. VI. In the Literature -- Among Writers / Rahel Kaznelson-Shazar -- Poetry / Rahel Blaustein -- Idle Tales -- Perhaps -- In the Garden -- Comfort Me -- In Sickness -- To You -- Barren -- My Land -- The Genizah / Dvorah Baron -- From Language to Language / Rahel Kaznelson-Shazar.