Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-50 Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
	History, power and difference	8
	Public/private	15
	Culture, discourse and story	20
1	'Making Do' and 'Getting By'	31
	Growing up working class	39
	Growing up female	49
	Conclusion - class and gender	61
2	A Home of Their Own	64
	Housing design and location	67
	Good tenants and good housewives	73
	'The suburban neurosis'	78
	Suburban voices	85
3	'Keeping Yourself to Yourself': Private Lives and Public Spectacles	96
	Public places	101
	Public voices	106
	Private spaces	116
	Sexuality and privacy	122
4	Servant and Mistress: The Case of Domestic Service	132
	Domestic service in the early twentieth century	134
	'The servant problem'	141
	'The mistress problem'	151
	Doris Arthurs and Rebecca	157
	Afterword	165
	Notes and References	174
	Bibliography	176
	Index	184