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Index
Title
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Part I: The Symbolic Pantomime
1 ‘A Sort of Silence and Embarrassment’
2 The Dainty Life
3 ‘A Seat in the Hall’
4 Centralising the Egg Yolks
5 Popinjays and Mob Caps
6 The Desire for Perfection
7 ‘Some Poor Girl’s Got To Go Up and Down, Up and Down . . .’
Part II: The Sacred Trust
8 The Ideal Village
9 ‘Silent, Obsequious and Omnipresent’
10 ‘Bowing and Scraping’
Part III: The Age of Ambivalence
11 ‘Out of a Cage’
12 ‘Don’t Think Your Life Will Be Any Different to Mine’
13 ‘It Was Exploitation But It Worked’
14 ‘Tall, Strong, Healthy and Keen to Work’
15 The Mechanical Maid
Part IV: Outer Show and Inner Life
16 ‘A Vast Machine That Has Forgotten How to Stop Working’
17 ‘Bachelor Establishments Are Notoriously Comfortable’
18 The Question of the Inner Life
19 ‘Do They Really Drink Out of Their Saucers?’
20 ‘Of Alien Origin’
Part V: A New Jerusalem
21 ‘A New and Useful Life’
22 The Housewife Militant
23 ‘The Change: It Must Have Been Terrible for Them’
24 The Shape of Things to Come
Part VI: ‘We Don’t Want Them Days Again’
25 ‘We’ve Moved to the Front’
26 ‘I’d Never Done What I Liked . . . Never in All My Life’
27 ‘We Like It Because the Past Is Not So Worrying as the News’
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
A Note on the Author
Plates
Copyright
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