Article: Figuring the new woman: writers and mothers in George Egerton's early stories.(Critical Essay)

Recent critical reevaluations of fin de siecle England have catalogued the contradictory attitudes held by and about New Women: (1) they were over-sexed or asexual, championed free love or advocated stricter standards of purity, embraced eugenic attitudes toward motherhood or threatened the future of the race by rejecting maternity outright, eschewed the private sphere's domestic duties to fight public battles for improved educational and professional opportunities or flaunted their self-absorption by exhaustively anatomizing their emotional and psychological states. Even such a brief overview shows the absurdity of attempting to draw up a coherent, ideologically consistent ...

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