Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Sources for illustrations vi
4. List of abbreviations viii
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. one Legacies of difficult women: the story of this book 1
7. two Imagining the good society: from economic facts to utopian fictions 19
8. three Settlement sociology: discovering social science 41
9. four Municipal housekeeping: women clean up the cities 77
10. five Sanitary science: putting the science into housework 101
11. six ‘Peace is too small a word for all this’: women peace makers 127
12. seven ‘Our cosmic patriotism’: diversity and the dangers of nationalism 167
13. eight Deeds, not words: women reformers and healthcare 199
14. nine Dangerous trades: reforming industrial labour 241
15. ten Domestic relations: female attachments, homes, and the trouble with marriage 281
16. eleven New deals: women reformers in the 1920s and 1930s 325
17. twelve Ways of forgetting: women reformers as missing persons 347
18. Appendix: list of women reformers 361
19. Notes 373
20. Index 429