The Making of Modern Woman

ISBN-13: 9780582414105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 380 str.

Lynn Abrams

Opis

During the period between the French Revolution and World War I, the women of Europe crafted new ideas about their sexuality, motherhood, the politics of femininity and their working roles. This text charts the contests for woman's identity, from domestic ideology to women's suffrage.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I Imaging Woman; Chapter 1 Body, Mind and Spirit; Chapter 2 Learning to be a Woman; Part II Private Lives, Public Worlds; Chapter 3 Marriage; Chapter 4 Mothers and Children; Chapter 5 Home, Kinship and Community; Chapter 6 Sex and Sexuality; Chapter 7 Working for a Living; Part III Power and Contest; Chapter 8 Politics, Nation and Identity; Chapter 9 Women’s Mission to Empire; Chapter 10 First-Wave Feminism; Chapter 11 The Great War;

O autorze

Lynn Abrams is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Glasgow.