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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452999203321

Autore

Moruzi Kristine

Titolo

Constructing girlhood through the periodical press, 1850-1915 [[electronic resource] /] / Kristine Moruzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, Vt., : ASHGATE, [2012]

ISBN

1-317-16149-1

1-280-87692-1

9786613718235

1-4094-2267-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Collana

Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present

Disciplina

052.0835/2

Soggetti

Children's periodicals, English - History

Youths' periodicals - Great Britain - History

Girls - Books and reading - Great Britain - History

Young women - Books and reading - Great Britain - History

Girls - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 19th century

Young women - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 19th century

Girls - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 20th century

Young women - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : girls of the period -- The religious girl : girlhood in the Monthly packet (1851-99) -- The latest sensation : girlhood and the girl of the Period miscellany -- The healthy girl : fitness and beauty in the Girl's own paper (1880-1907) -- The educated girl : Atalanta (1887-98) and the debate on education -- The marrying girl : social purity and marriage in the Young woman (1892-1915) -- The modern girl : heroic adventures in the Girl's realm (1898-1915).

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on six popular British girls' periodicals, Moruzi explores the debate about the shifting nature of Victorian girlhood between 1851 and 1915. Moruzi's analyses of competing discourses within girls' periodicals demonstrate how these publications were able to frame



feminine behaviour in ways that embraced the changing role of girls in nineteenth-century society while also attempting to maintain traditional feminine ideals of virtue and purity.