Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Queen Victoria's Granddaughter; 1. Women and Marriage: Running in Blinkers -- 2. Women's Work: More Bloomin' Bad Bizness -- 3. Women's Education: Maddest Folly Going -- 4. Women's Clubs: Girls Will Be Girls -- 5. Women's Fashions: The Shape of Things to Come; 6. Women's Athletics: A Bicycle Built for One; Conclusion: The New Woman; Works Cited; Index
Summary
The so-called ""New Woman""--That determined and free-wheeling figure in ""rational"" dress, demanding education, suffrage, and a career-was a frequent target for humorists in the popular press of the late nineteenth century. She invariably stood in contrast to the ""womanly woman, "" a traditional figure bound to domestic concerns and a stereotype away from which many women were inexorably moving. Patricia Marks's book, based on a survey of satires and caricatures drawn from British and American periodicals of the 1880s and 1890s, places the popular view of the New Woman in the context of the
