x, 303 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Contents
Introduction: a world apart -- Nord and its men -- Productive life of women --Domesticity: the rhetoric of reproduction -- Cosmos: faith versus reason -- Society: charity versus capitalism -- Education: innocence versus enlightenment -- Domestic myth -- Woman's mentality versus liberal consciousness.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-296) and index.