Table of Contents

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;

About the Author

Lynn Abrams is Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow.

Reviews

'a convincing synthesis of a vast body of recent research in this exciting and significant area of history'Richard J Evans, University of Cambridge 'an excellent introduction to the subject of women's lives in Europe's long nineteenth century' Kelly Boyd, Middlesex University " This text is set to become the classic survey in its field". June Purvis, Professor of Women's and gender history, University of Portsmouth