ABSTRACT
Modern woman was made between the French Revolution and the end of the First World War. In this time, the women of Europe crafted new ideas about their sexuaity, motherhood, the home, the politics of femininity, and their working roles. They faced challenges about what a woman should be and how she should act. From domestic ideology to women's suffrage, this book charts the contests for woman's identity in the epoch-shaping nineteenth century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |13 pages
Introduction
part |51 pages
Imaging Woman
chapter |25 pages
Body, Mind and Spirit
chapter |23 pages
Learning to be a Woman
part |143 pages
Private Lives, Public Worlds
chapter |31 pages
Marriage
chapter |26 pages
Mothers and Children
chapter |22 pages
Home, Kinship and Community
chapter |26 pages
Sex and Sexuality
chapter |35 pages
Working for a Living
part |113 pages
Power and Contest