Fieldwork in the home counties: double vision and dismantled identity -- The self and scientism -- Trading stereotypes -- Gypsy women: models in conflict -- Fortune-tellers: fakes or therapists -- Women readers: other Utopias and own bodily knowledge -- Girls and their bodies: the curriculum of the unconscious -- Privileged, schooled, and finished: boarding education for girls -- Re-reading The Second Sex -- Defiant moments: gender, resistance, and individuals.