Lynn Abrams is Chair of Modern History at the University of Glasgow where she works on modern women's and gender history. She has published extensively on British and European social history including The Making of Modern Woman: Europe 1789-1918 (2002), Myth and Materiality in a Women's World: Shetland 1800 to the Present (2005), and Oral History Theory (2016).

Grounded in an impressive base of research that is strong on oral history, this book focuses on the era when women had not yet developed a feminist ideology, yet took advantage of expanded educational opportunities and state provisioning in the postwar years to fashion new lives. Recommended.

• 1: Revolution of the Self 2: Mothers and Daughters 3: Fashioning the Self 4: Intimate Selves 5: Settling Down 6: The Expressive Self 7: Liberating the Self 8: Caring for the Self

Lynn Abrams is Chair of Modern History at the University of Glasgow where she works on modern women's and gender history. She has published extensively on British and European social history including The Making of Modern Woman: Europe 1789-1918 (2002), Myth and Materiality in a Women's World: Shetland 1800 to the Present (2005), and Oral History Theory (2016).

Grounded in an impressive base of research that is strong on oral history, this book focuses on the era when women had not yet developed a feminist ideology, yet took advantage of expanded educational opportunities and state provisioning in the postwar years to fashion new lives. Recommended.

• 1: Revolution of the Self 2: Mothers and Daughters 3: Fashioning the Self 4: Intimate Selves 5: Settling Down 6: The Expressive Self 7: Liberating the Self 8: Caring for the Self

Lynn Abrams is Chair of Modern History at the University of Glasgow where she works on modern women's and gender history. She has published extensively on British and European social history including The Making of Modern Woman: Europe 1789-1918 (2002), Myth and Materiality in a Women's World: Shetland 1800 to the Present (2005), and Oral History Theory (2016).

Grounded in an impressive base of research that is strong on oral history, this book focuses on the era when women had not yet developed a feminist ideology, yet took advantage of expanded educational opportunities and state provisioning in the postwar years to fashion new lives. Recommended.

• 1: Revolution of the Self 2: Mothers and Daughters 3: Fashioning the Self 4: Intimate Selves 5: Settling Down 6: The Expressive Self 7: Liberating the Self 8: Caring for the Self