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Girlhood

A Global History
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2010

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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.

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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.

Reviews

"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

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Foreword

    xi
    Miriam Forman-Brunell
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    Acknowledgments

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    Introduction

    1
    Jennifer Helgren and Colleen A. Vasconcellos
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    Toward Political Agency for Girls: Mapping the Discourses of Girlhood Globally

    14
    Jackie Kirk, Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
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  • PART I. GIRLS’ CULTURES AND IDENTITIES
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    Introduction

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    1. American Jewish Girls and the Politics of Identity, 1860–1920

    33
    Melissa R. Klapper
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    2. Growing Up in Colonial Algeria: The Case of Assia Djebar

    49
    Christa Jones
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    3. Immigrant Girls in Multicultural Amsterdam: Juggling Ambivalent Cultural Messages

    65
    Marion Den Uyl and Lenie Brouwer
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    4. Feminist Girls, Lesbian Comrades: Performances of Critical Girlhood in Taiwan Pop Music

    83
    Fran Martin
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  • PART II. THE POLITICS OF GIRLHOOD
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    Introduction

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    5. Girlhood Memories and the Politics of Justice in Post-Rosas Argentina: The Restitution Suit of Olalla Alvarez

    105
    Jesse Hingson
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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

    124
    Jan Voogd
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    7. “Life Is a Succession of Disappointments”: A Soviet Girl Contends with the Stalinist Dictatorship

    142
    E. Thomas Ewing
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    8. Fragilities and Failures, Promises and Patriotism: Elements of Second World War English and American Girlhood, 1939–1945

    162
    Lisa L. Ossian
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    9. Holy Girl Power Locally and Globally: The Marian Visions of Garabandal, Spain

    179
    Jessamy Harvey
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    10. Rebels, Robots, and All-American Girls: The Ideological Use of Images of Girl Gymnasts during the Cold War

    195
    Ann Kordas
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  • PART III. THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS
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    Introduction

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    11. Palestinian Girls and the British Missionary Enterprise, 1847–1948

    217
    Nancy L. Stockdale
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    12. “The Right Kind of Ambition”: Discourses of Femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895–1910

    234
    S.E. Duff
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    13. Stolen Girlhood: Australia’s Assimilation Policies and Aboriginal Girls

    250
    Christine Cheater
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    14. Fathers, Daughters, and Institutions: Coming of Age in Mombasa’s Colonial Schools

    268
    Corrie Decker
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    15. Mothers of Warriors: Girls in a Youth Debate of Interwar Iraq

    289
    Peter Wien
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    16. “‘Homemaker’ Can Include the World”: Female Citizenship and Internationalism in the Postwar Camp Fire Girls

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    Jennifer Helgren
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  • PART IV. GIRLS TO WOMEN: Work, Marriage, and Sexuality
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    Introduction

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    17. From Chattel to “Breeding Wenches”: Abolitionism, Girlhood, and Jamaican Slavery

    325
    Colleen A. Vasconcellos
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    18. Girls, Labor, and Sex in Precolonial Egypt, 1850–1882

    344
    Liat Kozma
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    19. Defiant Daughters and the Emancipation of Minors in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

    363
    Kathryn A. Sloan
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    20. The Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood: From “Sisters” to “Sinners” in One Generation

    382
    Patricia Sloane-White
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    Contributors

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    Index

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https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813549460
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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
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