Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. I Professionalizing the domestic 15
5. Introduction to Part I 17
6. 1 Professional identity and personal space in Mary Renault’s Kind Are Her Answers and Return to Night 20
7. 2 Talking shop 35
8. 3 ‘Some thoroughly tiresome housekeeping crisis’ 51
9. 4 ‘Coldly kind’ 66
10. II Nationalizing gender politics 83
11. Introduction to Part II 85
12. 5 New world women and the Labour Party win in Marghanita Laski’s The Village 89
13. 6 Beyond ‘companionate marriage’ 108
14. 7 Dissident friendship and revolutionary love in the novels of Sabitri Roy and Sulekha Sanyal 128
15. 8 ‘The political theory of heaven’ 146
16. III Women beyond the nation 163
17. Introduction to Part III 165
18. 9 ‘A woman is always a woman!’ 169
19. 10 Families in a time of catastrophe 185
20. 11 ‘Some other land, some other sea’ 202
21. Bibliography 223
22. Index 235