Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman

Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal WomanConduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman examines six centuries of conduct manuals and other instructive writing, analyzing the history of gendered expectations that have been debated in print from the fourteenth century and continue to influence our present thinking about womens roles and abilities.

Ann Loades has been instrumental in bringing forward for the attention of readers in later generations “voices from the past

Between 1954 and 1962

A crab moves slowly along the highway in an attempt to reach the sea

facilitating an interdisciplinary dialogue around the interconnected modes of controlling birth and practices of neo-eugenics

We are stuck in a low-pay

narratives

This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833–1918) – someone referred to among contemporaries as ‘the grey matter in the brain’ of the late-Victorian women’s movement

and has not had adequate detailed analysis of her plays to date

as well as a wealth of other contemporary information

and more as a way of life

considering hybrid bodies and precarious lives under neoliberal late capitalism

and LIS academics and students