CONTENTS: List of Tables and Figures vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1

List of Tables and Figures vii

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

Part I: Imagining Woman 15

1 Body, Mind and Spirit 17

2 Learning to be a Woman 43

Part II: Private Lives, Public Worlds 67

3 Marriage 69

4 Mothers and Children 101

5 Home, Kinship and Community 127

6 Sex and Sexuality 149

7 Working for a Living 175

Part III: Power and Contest 211

8 Politics, Nation and Identity 213

9 Women's Mission to Empire 243

10 First-Wave Feminism 265

11 The Great War 297

Notes 325

Further Reading 363

Index 371

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LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

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Table 4.1 Birth rates per 1000 population in selected

European countries, 1800—1920 107

Table 4.2 Infant mortality rates per 1000 live births in

selected European countries, 1850—1910 114

Figure 4.1 Midwives and maternal mortality, 1860—1914 113

Figure 7.1 Women at work c.1900 179

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Source: Abrams Lynn. The Making of Modern Woman: Europe, 1789-1918. Routledge, 2014. — 381 p.. 2014

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