Conduct books and the history of the ideal woman. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tabitha Kenlon.
• Authors: Kenlon, Tabitha
• Contents: Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Explanatory Note -- Chapter Int-coda -- Introduction Woman as she Should Be -- What Are Conduct Manuals? -- Everything Is a Conduct Manual -- This Book, However, Does Not Cover Everything -- Can Conduct Manuals Be Trusted? -- Women: By Accident or Design? -- Be a Woman -- Reality and Desire -- Notes -- Chapter 1 A Good Woman is a Godly Woman, Obviously -- Yes, This Will Be on the Test -- Instructive Language -- Too Much Fun Is Bad for Women Lucky Girl-Your Husband Knows Everything! -- Ladies Behaving Virtuously -- A Testing Society -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Conduct For Those Who are not Queen -- The Trouble with Queens -- Being Bad and Looking Good -- Need a New Pet? Try a Woman! -- A Royal Education -- The Invisible Woman -- The Curse of Beauty -- Marriage Makes Love Possible -- Woman under Construction -- Creative Differences -- Ruling Women -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Look But Don't Talk: Reflections of the Ideal -- Mirror, Mirror-Who's the Quietest of Them All? -- Help, Police! My Neighbor Is Scolding Me! The Looking Glass of a Woman's Life -- Clothes Are To Be Endured, Not Enjoyed -- No Talk, All Action -- Talking Is an Indoor Sport -- Why Be Good? Because You're Worth It -- Beyond the Looking Glass -- Beyond the Front Door -- The Mirror Never Lies ... -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Playing The Part as Nature Intended -- Always Have a Wish List -- Love, Marriage and the Law -- Act Natural -- Why Read Novels? Get Married Instead! -- Nature vs. Education -- If You Only Have One Book in Your Library ... -- Home Is Where the Woman Is -- That's Entertainment? -- What Men Want -- Playing Dumb -- Secret Love Do as I Say, Not as I Do -- Birds of a Feather Stay Home Together -- A New Old-Fashioned Girl -- Playing with the Ideal -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Victoria's Angels -- Men Work, Women Comfort -- Women on the Move -- Too Many Women -- The Victorians before Victoria -- Too Much Studying Is (Still) Not Feminine -- Worthy Women -- A Library of One's Own -- "Sensible, Though Obvious" -- "Spinster" Is Not a Dirty Word -- Don't Be Like Brunhild -- But, Really, Isn't It Better To Be Married? -- Morals and Manners -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Suffrage, Little Wives and Career Girls "I'm No Suburban Bridge Player-I'm a Newspaperman!" -- Votes for Women -- Want a Job? Be a Mother! -- What's in a Name? Etiquette vs. Conduct -- Good Manners = Good Woman -- How Women Work -- Which Professions Befit a Woman? -- From Desks to Driving -- The Same, but Different -- What Is Expected -- Virtue, with an Attitude -- Outspoken, but Not Outrageous -- Men Have Their Uses After All -- The Only Difference Is the Airplane -- Caution: Girls at Work -- No Job for a Woman -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Feminism Changes Everything, Right? Right?? -- I'm Not a Feminist, but ... -- Well, It's Complicated ...
• Publisher Details: London, UK : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (207 pages)
• Subjects: 305.42; Women -- Social conditions -- History; Women -- Conduct of life -- History; Femmes -- Conditions sociales; Femmes -- Morale pratique -- Histoire; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Subjects & Themes -- Women; Women -- Conduct of life; Women -- Social conditions; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785273155; 1785273159; 9781785273162; 1785273167
• Related ISBNs: 1785273140; 9781785273148
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 31, 2020).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.