Title:
A history of the girl : formation, education and identity / Mary O'Dowd, June Purvis, editors.
Author:
O'Dowd, Mary, editor.
Purvis, June, editor.
Publication Information:
[Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
©2018
Call Number:
HQ777 .H57 2018
Abstract:
"This book is centered on the history of the girl from the medieval period through to the early twenty-first century. Authored by an international team of scholars, the volume explores the transition from adolescent girlhood to young womanhood, the formation and education of girls in the home and in school, and paid work undertaken by girls in different parts of the world and at different times. It highlights the value of a comparative approach to the history of the girl, as the contributors point to shared attitudes to girlhood and the similarity of the experiences of girls in workplaces across the world. Contributions to the volume also emphasize the central role of girls in the global economy, from their participation in the textile industry in the eighteenth century, through to the migration of girls to urban centres in twentieth-century Africa and China."--Back cover.
ISBN:
9783319692777
9783319692784
Physical Description:
xiii, 266 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents:
Girls at work in the Middle Ages / From 'Young Women' to 'Female Adolescents': Dutch advice literature during the long Nineteenth Century / Adolescent girlhood in Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Young women, textile labour, and marriage in Europe and China around 1800 / The education of European and Chinese girls at home in the Nineteenth Century / '[T]he children bobbed like corks on the tide of life': The political education of the Pankhurst girls in late Victorian England / Girls as members of an educated elite: The Bulgarian case, c. 1850-1950 / Did the Bengali woman have a girlhood? A study of colonialism, education, and the evolution of the girl child in Nineteenth-Century Bengal / The 'Social Processing Chamber' of gender:Australian second-wave feminist perspectives on girls' socialisation / 'And sweet girl-graduates'? From girl to woman through higher education / The 'Girl-Hawking War' in Colonial Lagos / Biopolitics of Dai Girls: Work, marriage and a desirable lifestyle
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