Alison Twells is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural History at Sheffield Hallam University. She has written various articles, on women's history and on nineteenth-century missionary culture, and is the author of The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1780-1850: The 'Heathen' at Home and Overseas .

• Introduction1. Class, Region and Ethnicity2. Family and Work3. Education4. Sex and Sexualities5. Feminisms and Femininity6. The Great War, 1914-187. Franchise and After: the modern woman?  1918-398. War and Reconstruction, 1939-519. The Fifties and Sixties10. Women’s Lib to Post-Feminism?  1970 to the presentBibliography

Alison Twells is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural History at Sheffield Hallam University. She has written various articles, on women's history and on nineteenth-century missionary culture, and is the author of The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1780-1850: The 'Heathen' at Home and Overseas .

• Introduction1. Class, Region and Ethnicity2. Family and Work3. Education4. Sex and Sexualities5. Feminisms and Femininity6. The Great War, 1914-187. Franchise and After: the modern woman?  1918-398. War and Reconstruction, 1939-519. The Fifties and Sixties10. Women’s Lib to Post-Feminism?  1970 to the presentBibliography

Alison Twells is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural History at Sheffield Hallam University. She has written various articles, on women's history and on nineteenth-century missionary culture, and is the author of The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1780-1850: The 'Heathen' at Home and Overseas .

• Introduction1. Class, Region and Ethnicity2. Family and Work3. Education4. Sex and Sexualities5. Feminisms and Femininity6. The Great War, 1914-187. Franchise and After: the modern woman?  1918-398. War and Reconstruction, 1939-519. The Fifties and Sixties10. Women’s Lib to Post-Feminism?  1970 to the presentBibliography