Girlhood [[electronic resource] ] : a global history / / edited by Jennifer Helgren and Colleen A. Vasconcellos ; with a foreword by Miriam Forman-Brunell

• Autore: Helgren Jennifer
• Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (441 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.23082
• Soggetto topico: Girls; Girls - Social conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HelgrenJennifer <1972-> VasconcellosColleen A. <1973->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: American Jewish girls and the politics of identity, 1860-1920 / Melissa R. Klapper -- Growing up in colonial Algeria : the case of Assia Djebar / Christa Jones -- Immigrant girls in multicultural Amsterdam : juggling ambivalent cultural messages / Marion den Uyl and Lenie Brouwer -- Feminist girls, lesbian comrades : performances of critical girlhood in Taiwan pop music / Fran Martin -- Girlhood memories and the politics of justice in post-Rosas Argentina : the restitution suit of Olalla Alvarez / Jesse Hingson -- 'A case of peculiar and unusual interest' : the Egg Inspectors Union, the AFL, and the British Ministry of Food confront 'Negro girl' egg candlers / Jan Voogd -- 'Life is a succession of disappointments' : a Soviet girl contends with the Stalinist dictatorshp / E. Thomas Ewing -- Fragilities and failures, promises and patriotism : elements of Second World War English and American girlhood, 1939-1945 / Lisa L. Ossian -- Holy girl power locally and globally : the Marian visions of Garabandal, Spain / Jessamy Harvey -- Rebels, robots, and all-American girls : the ideological use of images of girl gymnasts during the Cold War / Ann Kordas -- Palestinian girls and the British missionary enterprise, 1847-1948 / Nancy L. Stockdale -- 'The right kind of ambition' : discourses of femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895-1910 / S.E. Duff -- Stolen girlhood : Australia's assimilation policies and aboriginal girls / Christine Cheater -- Fathers, daughters, and institutions : coming of age in Mombasa's colonial schools / Corrie Decker -- Mothers of warriors : girls in a youth debate of interwar Iraq / Peter Wien -- "'Homemaker' can include the world" : female citizenship and internationalism in the postwar camp fire girls / Jennifer Helgren -- From chattel to 'breeding wenches' : abolitionism, girlhood, and Jamaican slavery / Colleen A. Vasconcellos -- Girls, labor, and sex in precolonial Egypt, 1850-1882 / Liat Kozma -- Defiant daughters and the emancipation of minors in nineteenth-century Mexico / Kathryn A. Sloan -- The shifting status of middle-class Malay girlhood : from 'sisters' to 'sinners' in one generation / Patricia Sloane-White.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Girlhood
• ISBN: 1-283-86441-X; 0-8135-4946-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461742603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Rutgers series in childhood studies.