Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor of British History at the University of Southern Denmark. Her publications include A History of European Women’s Work, 1700 to the Present (1998), Gendering Scottish History, an international approach (1999) (co-edited) and has written widely on gender, work and education.

'Wide-ranging and clearly expressed, this book is set to become essential reading for students and teachers of Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.' – The Economic History Review

• 1. Introduction: Writing Women in(to) Modern Europe 2. At Home in the Family: Women and Familial Relationships 3. Female Sexuality 4. Learning to be Good Girls and Women: Education, Training and Schools 5. Women Workers; Working Women 6. Women Religious and Religious Women: Faith and Practice in Women’s Lives 7. Women as Citizens: Changing the Polity 8. Valiant Heroes or Pacific Ladies? Women in War and Peace 9. Home and Away: Women, Popular Culture and Leisure 10. Mistresses of Creation: Women as Producers and Consumers of Art since 1700

Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor of British History at the University of Southern Denmark. Her publications include A History of European Women’s Work, 1700 to the Present (1998), Gendering Scottish History, an international approach (1999) (co-edited) and has written widely on gender, work and education.

'Wide-ranging and clearly expressed, this book is set to become essential reading for students and teachers of Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.' – The Economic History Review

• 1. Introduction: Writing Women in(to) Modern Europe 2. At Home in the Family: Women and Familial Relationships 3. Female Sexuality 4. Learning to be Good Girls and Women: Education, Training and Schools 5. Women Workers; Working Women 6. Women Religious and Religious Women: Faith and Practice in Women’s Lives 7. Women as Citizens: Changing the Polity 8. Valiant Heroes or Pacific Ladies? Women in War and Peace 9. Home and Away: Women, Popular Culture and Leisure 10. Mistresses of Creation: Women as Producers and Consumers of Art since 1700

Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor of British History at the University of Southern Denmark. Her publications include A History of European Women’s Work, 1700 to the Present (1998), Gendering Scottish History, an international approach (1999) (co-edited) and has written widely on gender, work and education.

'Wide-ranging and clearly expressed, this book is set to become essential reading for students and teachers of Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.' – The Economic History Review

• 1. Introduction: Writing Women in(to) Modern Europe 2. At Home in the Family: Women and Familial Relationships 3. Female Sexuality 4. Learning to be Good Girls and Women: Education, Training and Schools 5. Women Workers; Working Women 6. Women Religious and Religious Women: Faith and Practice in Women’s Lives 7. Women as Citizens: Changing the Polity 8. Valiant Heroes or Pacific Ladies? Women in War and Peace 9. Home and Away: Women, Popular Culture and Leisure 10. Mistresses of Creation: Women as Producers and Consumers of Art since 1700