The book is divided into four sections:
Status This covers: Women’s Special Status; The
Education of Girls; Marriage; Separation; Divorce;
Spinsterhood; Pregnancy and Childbearing; Affiliation;
Baby Farming; Crinolines and Bloomers.
Occupations The largest section, which describes
women's work in the areas of Business and Trade; Shops
and Services; Baths, Books and Billiards; Personal and
Medical Services; Office-based Services; Post Offices;
Transport; Male Trades; Laundresses; The Arts; Bed and
Board; The Liquor Trade; Manufacturing; Toll- Collectors
and Caretakers; Matrons and Superintendents; Teaching;
Farming; Railways; Sea and Beach Occupations;
Domestic Servants; Walking the Streets; The Occupation
of Ladies.
Women and the Law includes sections on: Affiliation;
Women as Perpetrators: (Licensees; Street Nuisances;
Prostitution; Theft and Fraud; Violence; Husband-Beating;
Suicide; Homicide; Infanticide; Abortion.) Women as
Victims: (Assaults and Murders; Sexual Crimes.)
Emancipation Improvements in Women’s Legal Status;
An Introduction to Some Sussex Feminists.
To round off the book there is a list of further reading, an
appendix and a comprehensive index.
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The Status of Women
Occupations of Sussex Women
Women and the Law
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Women of Victorian Sussex
Their Status, Occupations and Dealings with the Law 1830~1870