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Girlhood
A Global History
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Edited by:
Jennifer Helgren
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With contributions by:
Lenie Brouwer
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Preface by:
Miriam Forman-Brunell
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English
Published/Copyright:
2010
About this book
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 frame from 1750 to the present, essays illuminate the various continuities and differences in girls' lives across culture and region--girls on all continents except Antarctica are represented. Case studies and essays are arranged thematically to encourage comparisons between girls' experiences in diverse locales, and to assess how girls were affected by historical developments such as colonialism, political repression, war, modernization, shifts in labor markets, migrations, and the rise of consumer culture.
Spanning a broad time frame from 1750 to the present, essays illuminate the various continuities and differences in girls' lives across culture and region--girls on all continents except Antarctica are represented. Case studies and essays are arranged thematically to encourage comparisons between girls' experiences in diverse locales, and to assess how girls were affected by historical developments such as colonialism, political repression, war, modernization, shifts in labor markets, migrations, and the rise of consumer culture.
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JENNIFER HELGREN is an assistant professor of history at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.
COLLEEN A. VASCONCELLOS is an assistant professor at University of West Georgia.
COLLEEN A. VASCONCELLOS is an assistant professor at University of West Georgia.
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"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"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, DavisTopics
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Toward Political Agency for Girls: Mapping the Discourses of Girlhood Globally
14 - PART I. GIRLS’ CULTURES AND IDENTITIES
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1. American Jewish Girls and the Politics of Identity, 1860–1920
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2. Growing Up in Colonial Algeria: The Case of Assia Djebar
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3. Immigrant Girls in Multicultural Amsterdam: Juggling Ambivalent Cultural Messages
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4. Feminist Girls, Lesbian Comrades: Performances of Critical Girlhood in Taiwan Pop Music
83 - PART II. THE POLITICS OF GIRLHOOD
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5. Girlhood Memories and the Politics of Justice in Post-Rosas Argentina: The Restitution Suit of Olalla Alvarez
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6. “A Case of Peculiar and Unusual Interest”: The Egg Inspectors Union, the AFL, and the British Ministry of Food Confront “Negro Girl” Egg Candlers
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7. “Life Is a Succession of Disappointments”: A Soviet Girl Contends with the Stalinist Dictatorship
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8. Fragilities and Failures, Promises and Patriotism: Elements of Second World War English and American Girlhood, 1939–1945
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9. Holy Girl Power Locally and Globally: The Marian Visions of Garabandal, Spain
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10. Rebels, Robots, and All-American Girls: The Ideological Use of Images of Girl Gymnasts during the Cold War
195 - PART III. THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS
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11. Palestinian Girls and the British Missionary Enterprise, 1847–1948
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12. “The Right Kind of Ambition”: Discourses of Femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895–1910
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13. Stolen Girlhood: Australia’s Assimilation Policies and Aboriginal Girls
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14. Fathers, Daughters, and Institutions: Coming of Age in Mombasa’s Colonial Schools
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15. Mothers of Warriors: Girls in a Youth Debate of Interwar Iraq
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16. “‘Homemaker’ Can Include the World”: Female Citizenship and Internationalism in the Postwar Camp Fire Girls
304 - PART IV. GIRLS TO WOMEN: Work, Marriage, and Sexuality
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17. From Chattel to “Breeding Wenches”: Abolitionism, Girlhood, and Jamaican Slavery
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18. Girls, Labor, and Sex in Precolonial Egypt, 1850–1882
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19. Defiant Daughters and the Emancipation of Minors in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
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20. The Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood: From “Sisters” to “Sinners” in One Generation
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Contributors
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Index
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June 22, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780813549460
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9780813549460
Keywords for this book
anthropology; childhood studies; history; world history; social science; children's studies; women's studies; women's interests; age; gender; gender studies; age studies; intersectionality; colonialism; politics; war; political repression; modernization; labor markets; labor studies; labor; consumer culture; jewish; culture; identity; algeria; girlhood; Argentina; Palestine; British Missionary Enterprise; Scholarship; Malasia; Egypt; rutgers; rutgers university; rutgers university press; nonfiction; Jamaica; Australia; race and gender; gender and politics; gender and culture; Iraq; war culture; post-war; postwar; sexuality
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
