{"product_id":"girlhood-a-global-history-rutger-series-in-childhood-series-series-in-childhood-studies-9780813547053","title":"Girlhood A Global History Rutger Series in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGirlhood\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- Helma Van Leirop * Tilburg University\/Leiden University, IRSCL online review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword \/ Miriam Forman-Brunell\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Jennifer Helgren \/ Colleen A. Vasconcellos\u003cbr\u003e Toward Political Agency for Girls: Mapping the Discourses of Girlhood Globally \/ Jackie Kirk \/ Claudia Mitchell \/ Jacqueline Reid-Walsh\u003cbr\u003e Part I Girls' Cultures and Identities\u003cbr\u003e American Jewish Girls and the Politics of Identity, 1860-1920 \/ Melissa R. Klapper\u003cbr\u003e Growing Up in Colonial Algeria: The Case of Assia Djebar \/ Christa Jones\u003cbr\u003e Immigrant Girls in Multicultural Amsterdam: Juggling Ambivalent Cultural Messages \/ Marion Den Uyl \/ Lenie Brouwer\u003cbr\u003e Feminist Girls, Lesbian Comrades: Performances of Critical Girlhood in Taiwan Pop Music \/ Fran Martin\u003cbr\u003e Part II The Politics of Girlhood\u003cbr\u003e Girlhood Memories and the Politics of Justice in Post-Rosas Argentina: The Restitution Suit of Olalla Alvarez \/ Jesse Hingson\u003cbr\u003e \"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\u003cbr\u003e \"Life Is a Succession of Disappointments\": A Soviet Girl Contends with the Stalinist Dictatorship \/ E. Thomas Ewing\u003cbr\u003e Fragilities and Failures, Promises and Patriotism: Elements of Second World War English and American Girlhood, 1939-1945 \/ Lisa L. Ossian\u003cbr\u003e Holy Girl Power Locally and Globally: The Marian Visions of Garabandal, Spain \/ Jessamy Harvey\u003cbr\u003e Rebels, Robots, and All-American Girls: The Ideological Use of Images of Girl Gymnasts during the Cold War \/ Ann Kordas\u003cbr\u003e Part III The Education of Girls\u003cbr\u003e Palestinian Girls and the British Missionary Enterprise, 1847-1948 \/ Nancy L. Stockdale\u003cbr\u003e \"The Right Kind of Ambition\": Discourses of Femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895-1910 \/ S. E. Duff\u003cbr\u003e Stolen Girlhood: Australia's Assimilation Policies and Aboriginal Girls \/ Christine Cheater\u003cbr\u003e Fathers, Daughters, and Institutions: Coming of Age in Mombasa's Colonial Schools \/ Corrie Decker\u003cbr\u003e Mothers of Warriors: Girls in a Youth Debate of Interwar Iraq \/ Peter Wien\u003cbr\u003e \"Homemaker' Can Include the World\": Female Citizenship and Internationalism in the Postwar Camp Fire Girls \/ Jennifer Helgren\u003cbr\u003e Part IV Girls to Women: Work, Marriage, and Sexuality\u003cbr\u003e From Chattel to \"Breeding Wenches\": Abolitionism, Girlhood, and Jamaican Slavery \/ Colleen A. Vasconcellos\u003cbr\u003e Girls, Labor, and Sex in Precolonial Egypt, 1850-1882 \/ Liat Kozma\u003cbr\u003e Defiant Daughters and the Emancipation of Minors in Nineteenth-Century Mexico \/ Kathryn A. Sloan\u003cbr\u003e The Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood: From \"Sisters\" to \"Sinners\" in One Generation \/ Patricia Sloane-White\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405780132183,"sku":"9780813547053","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813547053.jpg?v=1730493590","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/girlhood-a-global-history-rutger-series-in-childhood-series-series-in-childhood-studies-9780813547053","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}