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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779442603321

Autore

Dyhouse Carol <1948-, >

Titolo

Girls growing up in late Victorian and Edwardian England / / Carol Dyhouse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-24817-X

0-203-10410-2

1-283-89544-7

1-136-24818-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (386 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Women's history ; ; v. 14

Disciplina

305.2/3/0941

305.230820942

305.230941

Soggetti

Teenage girls - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Teenage girls - Education - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Feminism - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1981"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 First lessons in femininity: the experience of family life; 2 Schooling, college and femininity: some experiences of middle -class girls; 3 Good wives and little mothers: educational provision for working-class girls; 4 Adolescent girlhood: autonomy versus dependence; 5 Feminist perspectives and responses; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Girls learn about ""femininity"" from childhood onwards, first through their relationships in the family, and later from their teachers and peers. Using sources which vary from diaries to Inspector's reports, this book studies the socialization of middle- and working-class girls in late Victorian and early-Edwardian England. It traces the ways in which schooling at all social levels at this time tended to reinforce lessons in the sexual division of labour and patterns of authority between men and women, which girls had already learned at home. Considering the



social anxieties that helped to