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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957861703321

Autore

Abrams Lynn

Titolo

The making of modern woman : Europe 1789-1918 / / Lynn Abrams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-315-83837-0

1-317-87668-7

1-317-87667-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Collana

Longman History of European Women

Disciplina

305.409409034

305.4094

Soggetti

Women - Europe - History - 19th century

Women - Europe - History - 18th century

Europe History 1789-1900

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2002 by Pearson Education.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Imagining Woman; 1 Body, Mind and Spirit; 2 Learning to be a Woman; Part II: Private Lives, Public Worlds; 3 Marriage; 4 Mothers and Children; 5 Home, Kinship and Community; 6 Sex and Sexuality; 7 Working for a Living; Part III: Power and Contest; 8 Politics, Nation and Identity; 9 Women's Mission to Empire; 10 First-Wave Feminism; 11 The Great War; Notes; Further Reading

Sommario/riassunto

Modern 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.