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The story of women growing up in post-war Britain, rejecting the self-sacrifice of their mothers' generation and embracing new ways of living, feeling, and being in the decades before Women's Liberation. They were feminists before feminism, which we see through their descriptions of themselves, their relationships, their feelings, and actions.

This work tells the story of women growing up in post-war Britain, rejecting the self-sacrifice of their mothers' generation and embracing new ways of living, feeling, and being in the decades before Women's Liberation. They were feminists before feminism, which we see through their descriptions of themselves, their relationships, their feelings, and actions.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Imagining Woman -- 1 Body, Mind and Spirit -- 2 Learning to be a Woman -- Part II: Private Lives, Public Worlds -- 3 Marriage -- 4 Mothers and Children -- 5 Home, Kinship and Community -- 6 Sex and Sexuality -- 7 Working for a Living -- Part III: Power and Contest -- 8 Politics, Nation and Identity -- 9 Women's Mission to Empire -- 10 First-Wave Feminism -- 11 The Great War -- Notes -- Further Reading

This article is about the tension between the grand narrative of modern European women's history and the micro‐study of a particular place and experience. Adopting a perspective far removed from the metropolitan heart of Europe forces one to think differently about the prime motors of change and the chronology of that change. I ask how we can write meaningful and recognisable histories which simultaneously are recognisable to those whose voices are represented and which also contribute to the (re)writing of the bigger picture. I conclude that an alternative history can only emerge from a historical practice which privileges a social memory crafted around narratives of women whose sense of the past included themselves.