Love and Freedom Professional Women and the Reshaping of Personal Life [Paperback]

This 1997 book traces the history of women's responses to changes in education, employment, reproductive science and law since the 1890s.Can the educated women of the 1990s have both a career and a fulfilling personal life? This book traces the history of women's repsonses to changes in education, employment, reproductive science and law since the 1890s. Increased work and education opportunities and knowledge of contraception meant choice about when, and indeed whether, to marry and have children. The author utilises social and government history, autobiography and statistical analysis. This incisive interdisciplinary book will find broad appeal.Can the educated women of the 1990s have both a career and a fulfilling personal life? This book traces the history of women's repsonses to changes in education, employment, reproductive science and law since the 1890s. Increased work and education opportunities and knowledge of contraception meant choice about when, and indeed whether, to marry and have children. The author utilises social and government history, autobiography and statistical analysis. This incisive interdisciplinary book will find broad appeal.Can the educated women of the 1990s have both a career and a fulfilling personal life? This book traces the history of women's responses to changes in education, employment, reproductive science and law since the 1890s. Increased work and education opportunities and knowledge of contraception meant choice about when, and indeed whether, to marry and have children. The author utilizes social and government history, autobiography and statistical analysis. This incisive interdisciplinary book will find broad appeal.Preface; Acknowledgements; Epigraph; 1. Gender crisis and social anxiety; 2. The selfishness of women: moral panic and the declining birthrate; 3. Sexuality and reproduction: narratives of demography and discourse; 4. The curse of Eve? Family formation and the university woman; 5. 'This dependence of the womlc7