Description
Book SynopsisGirlhood, 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.
Trade Review"This volume presents fresh scholarship on the history of girls' cultures and will become an oft-cited, first important collection that helps define the burgeoning field of the history of children and youth." -- Jay Mechling * professor of American studies, University of California, Davis *
"Provides the field of girl-centered research with new insights, the most important being that the notion of girlhood is not uniform and fixed, but diverse and dynamic."
-- Helma Van Leirop * Tilburg University/Leiden University, IRSCL online review *
Table of ContentsForeword / Miriam Forman-Brunell
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Jennifer Helgren / Colleen A. Vasconcellos
Toward Political Agency for Girls: Mapping the Discourses of Girlhood Globally / Jackie Kirk / Claudia Mitchell / Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
Part I Girls' Cultures and Identities
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 / Lenie Brouwer
Feminist Girls, Lesbian Comrades: Performances of Critical Girlhood in Taiwan Pop Music / Fran Martin
Part II The Politics of Girlhood
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 Dictatorship / 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
Part III The Education of Girls
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
Part IV Girls to Women: Work, Marriage, and Sexuality
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
Contributors
Index
