Table of Contents

Contents

Preface
Chronology

Prologue
1. The Child Prodigy
2. Love by Letter
3. The Two Cages
4. Encounter with Reality
5. Joie de Vivre
6. The Firm—Social Engineering, Inc.
7. A New Deal?
8. A Human Dilemma
9. Breeding Secret Dissatisfaction
10. "Good God, what a challenge!"
11. The Ambassador
12. A Cause, Gunnar, a Cause!
Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

An intimate, impassioned biography of one of the great women of the 20th century

About the Author

Yvonne Hirdman is Professor of Gender History at the University of Stockholm. She is author or co-author of more than ten books on women's and labor history and the welfare state. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden.

Linda Schenck's translations include works by Selma Lagerlöf, Kerstin Ekman, and Majgull Axelsson.

Reviews

"It's brilliant. A masterpiece. Read and tremble!" Ulrika Knutson, Kulturnytt "An impressive gender drama and an equally striking picture of 20th-century women's history." Marianne Ekenbjorn, Sundsvalls Tidning