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.

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

chapter |22 pages

Women's Mission to Empire

chapter |32 pages

First-Wave Feminism

chapter |27 pages

The Great War