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Part I The Symbolic Pantomime |
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1 `A Sort of Silence and Embarrassment' |
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25 | (9) |
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4 Centralising the Egg Yolks |
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34 | (7) |
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41 | (9) |
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6 The Desire for Perfection |
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50 | (9) |
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7 `Some Poor Girl's Got To Go Up and Down, Up and Down...' |
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59 | (24) |
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83 | (17) |
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9 `Silent, Obsequious and Omnipresent' |
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100 | (13) |
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113 | (28) |
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Part III The Age of Ambivalence |
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141 | (8) |
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12 `Don't Think Your Life Will Be Any Different to Mine' |
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149 | (12) |
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13 `It Was Exploitation But It Worked' |
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161 | (9) |
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14 `Tall, Strong, Healthy and Keen to Work' |
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170 | (10) |
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180 | (13) |
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Part IV Outer Show and Inner Life |
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16 `A Vast Machine That Has Forgotten How to Stop Working' |
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193 | (15) |
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17 `Bachelor Establishments Are Notoriously Comfortable' |
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208 | (10) |
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18 The Question of the Inner Life |
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218 | (11) |
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19 `Do They Really Drink Out of Their Saucers?' |
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229 | (7) |
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236 | (15) |
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21 `A New and Useful Life' |
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251 | (14) |
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22 The Housewife Militant |
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265 | (11) |
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23 `The Change: It Must Have Been Terrible for Them' |
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276 | (10) |
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24 The Shape of Things to Come |
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286 | (13) |
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Part VI `We Don't Want Them Days Again' |
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25 `We've Moved to the Front' |
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299 | (11) |
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26 `I'd Never Done What I Liked ... Never in All My Life' |
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310 | (6) |
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27 `We Like It Because the Past Is Not So Worrying as the News' |
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316 | (11) |
| Notes |
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327 | (26) |
| Bibliography |
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353 | (16) |
| Acknowledgements |
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369 | (2) |
| Index |
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