The Making of Modern Woman

About this book

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 womens suffrage this book charts the contests for womans identity in the epoch-shaping nineteenth century.