The Making of Modern Woman

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

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;