1. Fieldwork in the Home Counties: Double vision and dismantled identity -- 2. The self and scientism -- 3. Trading stereotypes -- 4. Gypsy women: Models in conflict -- 5. Fortune-tellers: Fakes or therapists -- 6. Women readers: Other utopias and own bodily knowledge -- 7. Girls and their bodies: The curriculum of the unconscious -- 8. Privileged, schooled and finished: Boarding education for girls -- 9. Re-reading The Second Sex -- 10. Defiant moments: Gender, resistance and individuals.