With the following chapters: I Accepting, tolerating, discriminating - the concepts of discrimination and tolerance: II Institutions, discrimination and tolerance: III Religious discrimination and tolerance: IV Discrimination and tolerance in history and remembrance: V Maintaining discrimination or fostering tolernace?: VI Ethnic and linguistic discrimination and tolerance: VII Tolerance and discrimination: minorities, exiles and migration. In 'Tolerance and discrimination in the field of women's and gender history' the value of the concepts 'tolerance' and 'discrimination' for historical research in women's and gender history are explored.