Girlhood : a Global History /
Girlhood, interdisciplinary and global in source, scope, and methodology, examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives. Scholars study how age and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, work together to influence the historical experience. Spanning a broad time fram...
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
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2010
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| Series: | Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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Table of Contents:
- American Jewish girls and the politics of identity, 1860-1920 / Melissa R. Klapper
- Growing up in colonial Algeria : the case of Assia Djebar / Christa Jones
- Immigrant girls in multicultural Amsterdam : juggling ambivalent cultural messages / Marion den Uyl and Lenie Brouwer
- Feminist girls, lesbian comrades : performances of critical girlhood in Taiwan pop music / Fran Martin
- Girlhood memories and the politics of justice in post-Rosas Argentina : the restitution suit of Olalla Alvarez / Jesse Hingson
- 'A case of peculiar and unusual interest' : the Egg Inspectors Union, the AFL, and the British Ministry of Food confront 'Negro girl' egg candlers / Jan Voogd
- 'Life is a succession of disappointments' : a Soviet girl contends with the Stalinist dictatorshp / E. Thomas Ewing
- Fragilities and failures, promises and patriotism : elements of Second World War English and American girlhood, 1939-1945 / Lisa L. Ossian
- Holy girl power locally and globally : the Marian visions of Garabandal, Spain / Jessamy Harvey
- Rebels, robots, and all-American girls : the ideological use of images of girl gymnasts during the Cold War / Ann Kordas
- Palestinian girls and the British missionary enterprise, 1847-1948 / Nancy L. Stockdale
- 'The right kind of ambition' : discourses of femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895-1910 / S.E. Duff
- Stolen girlhood : Australia's assimilation policies and aboriginal girls / Christine Cheater
- Fathers, daughters, and institutions : coming of age in Mombasa's colonial schools / Corrie Decker
- Mothers of warriors : girls in a youth debate of interwar Iraq / Peter Wien
- "'Homemaker' can include the world" : female citizenship and internationalism in the postwar camp fire girls / Jennifer Helgren
- From chattel to 'breeding wenches' : abolitionism, girlhood, and Jamaican slavery / Colleen A. Vasconcellos
- Girls, labor, and sex in precolonial Egypt, 1850-1882 / Liat Kozma
- Defiant daughters and the emancipation of minors in nineteenth-century Mexico / Kathryn A. Sloan
- The shifting status of middle-class Malay girlhood : from 'sisters' to 'sinners' in one generation / Patricia Sloane-White.
