Table of Contents:
- Overture
- Part 1 : Rights of man and duties of woman. Prelude : women's identity in eighteenth-century culture ; Intimate lives : self, sex and family ; Community spaces ; Wider worlds : gendering the Enlightenment ; Intermezzo : The revolutionary era
- Part 2 : Domesticity and Industrialism. Prelude : The legacy of the Enlightenment ; Intimate worlds : our mothers' daughters ; Community spaces : labour, leisure and consumption ; Shaping wider worlds ; Intermezzo : La belle époque or fin de siècle?
- Part 3 : Modern times. Prelude : Carrying Linda's stones ; Intimacy and independence ; The transitional community ; Women go public ; Coda : Gender, skill and identity.