This book traces the history of women"s responses to changes in education, employment, reproductive science and law since the 1890s.

Preface; Acknowledgements; Epigraph; 1. Gender crisis and social anxiety; 2. The selfishness of women: moral panic and the declining birthrate; 3. Sexuality and reproduction: narratives of demography and discourse; 4. The curse of Eve? Family formation and the university woman; 5. 'This dependence of the woman in marriage unspeakably distasteful': from wife to woman; 6. Two antagonistic worlds? Love and the life of the mind; 7. The internationalization of the human heart; 8. Conclusions: both gifts in one hand?