The Making of Modern Woman: Europe, 1789-1918Modern 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. |
Contents
Body Mind and Spirit | 17 |
Learning to be a Woman | 43 |
Marriage | 69 |
Copyright | |
9 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
active amongst argued became Bell and Offen birth body Britain British campaign cent child citizenship classes colonial culture daughters Davidoff difference divorce domestic duty economic emancipation Empire employment England equal Europe European women experience factory femininity feminism feminist first-wave feminism France French French Revolution gender roles German girls Hedwig Dohm historians household housework Hubertine Auclert husband Ibid identity ideology illegitimacy imperial independent industrial Jeanne Deroin labour liberal lives London Louise Otto-Peters Madeleine Pelletier male marriage married Mary Wollstonecraft maternal middle-class middle-class women missionaries moral motherhood mothers movement natural nineteenth century nurses organisations Oxford patriotic political position prostitution Quoted reform region of France relationship reproductive Revolution revolutionary Russia separate spheres servants sexual social socialist society status struggle suffrage tion urban Vera Brittain wages whilst widows wife wives Wollstonecraft woman women workers Women's History women's rights working-class women World