Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. What did Women want?: Post-war masculinity in the woman's novel of the 1950s

3. 'Mothers Without Partners': the single mother narrative of the 1960s

4. She's Leaving Home: the 'college girl' narrative of the 1970s

5. Shopping as Work: the sex and shopping novel of the 1980s

6. Keeping the Home Fires Burning: the Aga Saga of the 1990s

7. Shopping for Men: the Single Woman narrative

8. Resentful Daughters: the post-feminist novel?

9.Afterword

Bibliography

Index