The making of modern woman: Europe, 1789-1918

Imagining woman: Body, mind and spirit; Learning to be a woman -- Private lives, public worlds: Marriage; Mothers and children; Home, kinship and community; Sex and sexuality; Working for a living -- Power and contest: Politics, nation and identity; Women's mission to empire; First-wave feminism; Great War.;Modern woman was made between the French Revolution and the end of the First World War. In this time, the women of Europe developed new ideas about their sexuality, motherhood, the home, the politics of femininity, and their working roles. They faces 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 this ... century.-Back cover.