Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Toward Political Agency for Girls: Mapping the Discourses of Girlhood Globally 14
7. PART I. GIRLS’ CULTURES AND IDENTITIES
8. Introduction 31
9. 1. American Jewish Girls and the Politics of Identity, 1860–1920 33
10. 2. Growing Up in Colonial Algeria: The Case of Assia Djebar 49
11. 3. Immigrant Girls in Multicultural Amsterdam: Juggling Ambivalent Cultural Messages 65
12. 4. Feminist Girls, Lesbian Comrades: Performances of Critical Girlhood in Taiwan Pop Music 83
13. PART II. THE POLITICS OF GIRLHOOD
14. Introduction 103
15. 5. Girlhood Memories and the Politics of Justice in Post-Rosas Argentina: The Restitution Suit of Olalla Alvarez 105
16. 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 124
17. 7. “Life Is a Succession of Disappointments”: A Soviet Girl Contends with the Stalinist Dictatorship 142
18. 8. Fragilities and Failures, Promises and Patriotism: Elements of Second World War English and American Girlhood, 1939–1945 162
19. 9. Holy Girl Power Locally and Globally: The Marian Visions of Garabandal, Spain 179
20. 10. Rebels, Robots, and All-American Girls: The Ideological Use of Images of Girl Gymnasts during the Cold War 195
21. PART III. THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS
22. Introduction 215
23. 11. Palestinian Girls and the British Missionary Enterprise, 1847–1948 217
24. 12. “The Right Kind of Ambition”: Discourses of Femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895–1910 234
25. 13. Stolen Girlhood: Australia’s Assimilation Policies and Aboriginal Girls 250
26. 14. Fathers, Daughters, and Institutions: Coming of Age in Mombasa’s Colonial Schools 268
27. 15. Mothers of Warriors: Girls in a Youth Debate of Interwar Iraq 289
28. 16. “‘Homemaker’ Can Include the World”: Female Citizenship and Internationalism in the Postwar Camp Fire Girls 304
29. PART IV. GIRLS TO WOMEN: Work, Marriage, and Sexuality
30. Introduction 323
31. 17. From Chattel to “Breeding Wenches”: Abolitionism, Girlhood, and Jamaican Slavery 325
32. 18. Girls, Labor, and Sex in Precolonial Egypt, 1850–1882 344
33. 19. Defiant Daughters and the Emancipation of Minors in Nineteenth-Century Mexico 363
34. 20. The Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood: From “Sisters” to “Sinners” in One Generation 382
35. Contributors 403
36. Index 407