Table of Contents

A Cultural History of Women in the Modern Age, Edited by Liz Conor Introduction The Life Cycle, Catherine Kevin, Flinders University, Australia Bodies and Sexuality, Zora Simic, University of New South Wales, Australia Religion and Popular Beliefs, Maureen Perkins, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Medicine and Disease, Mary Kleinman, Loyola University Chicago and Alice J. Dan, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Public and Private, Bronwyn Winter, University of Sydney, Australia Education and Work, Deborah Simonton,University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Power, June Hannam, University of the West of England, UK Artistic Representation, Janell Hobson, University at Albany, SUNY, USA

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A broad overview of the history of women in the modern age.

About the Author

Liz Conor is Research Fellow in the Dept of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and author of The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s and co-editor of Double Take: Colonial Visualities.