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- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Man’s World, Women’s Narratives
- Change and Continuity
- Women’s Agenda
- The Book’s Structure
- Part I Imaging Woman
- Chapter 1 Body, Mind and Spirit
- The Body
- Constructing Femininity
- Piety and Spirituality
- Conclusions
- Chapter 2 Learning to be a Woman
- Domesticity
- Service and Self-Sacrifice
- Lessons in Femininity
- Reading About Femininity
- Conclusions
- Part II Private Lives, Public Worlds
- Chapter 3 Marriage
- Choosing a Spouse
- The Patriarchal Marriage
- The Love-Match
- Marriage Breakdown
- Spinsters
- Widowhood
- Conclusions
- Chapter 4 Mothers and Children
- The Idealised Mother
- Pregnancy
- Giving Birth
- Mothering
- The Unwed Mother
- Maternity and the State
- Conclusions
- Chapter 5 Home, Kinship and Community
- Home Sweet Home
- Women’s Networks
- Exporting the Home
- Conclusions
- Chapter 6 Sex and Sexuality
- Sex and Reputation
- Regulating Sex
- Reforming Sex
- A Woman’s Right to be Sexual
- Lesbian Identities
- Conclusions
- Chapter 7 Working for a Living
- The Geography of Women’s Work
- The Family Economy
- Working at Home
- The Sexual Division of Labour
- Women’s Work Identities
- New Jobs for Women
- Conclusions
- Part III Power and Contest
- Chapter 8 Politics, Nation and Identity
- Citizens Without Citizenship
- Disappointed Revolutionaries
- The Nation as Woman
- The National Family
- Disappointed Patriots
- Conclusions
- Chapter 9 Women’s Mission to Empire
- Missions and Slaves
- Domesticating the Empire
- No Place for a White Woman
- Civilising Initiatives
- Universal Sisterhood
- Conclusions
- Chapter 10 First-Wave Feminism
- The Origins of First-Wave Feminism
- Legal Reform
- Education and Employment
- Socialist Solutions
- Women’s Suffrage
- Conclusions
- Chapter 11 The Great War
- The Home at War
- Women as the Enemy Within
- Workers
- Patriots and Pacifists
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Body, Mind and Spirit
- Chapter 2: Learning to be a Woman
- 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
- Chapter 8: Politics, Nation and Identity
- Chapter 9: Women’s Mission to Empire
- Chapter 10: First-Wave Feminism
- Chapter 11: The Great War
- Further Reading
- General Works
- National Histories
- Women’s History, Theory and Historiography
- Body, Mind and Spirit
- Femininity and Domesticity
- Marriage, Spinsters and Widows
- Motherhood
- Home, Household, Community
- Sexuality
- Work
- Politics and Nationalism
- Empire
- Feminism
- First World War
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