A history of the girl : formation, education and identity /: formation, education and identity. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mary O'Dowd, June Purvis.
• Editors: O'Dowd, Mary; Purvis, June
• Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction; Mary O'Dowd and June PurvisChapter 2. Girls at Work in the Middle Ages; Sophie BrouquetChapter 3. From 'Young Women' to 'Female Adolescents': Dutch Advice Literature During the Long Nineteenth Century; Marja van TilburgChapter 4. Adolescent Girlhood in Eighteenth Century Ireland; Mary O'DowdChapter 5. Young Woman, Textile Labour and Marriage in Europe and China around 1800; Mary Jo Maynes and Ann WaltnerChapter 6. The Education of European and Chinese Girls at Home in the Nineteenth Century; Emily Bruce and Fang QinChapter 7. '[T]he Children Bobbed Like Corks on the Tide of Adult Life': The Political Education of the Pankhurst Girls in Late Victorian England; June PurvisChapter 8. Girls as Members of an Educated Elite: The Bulgarian Case (1850-1950); Georgeta NazarskaChapter 9. Did the Bengali Woman have a Girlhood? A Study of Colonialism, Education and the Evolution of the Girl Child in Nineteenth-Century Bengal; Asha Islam NayeemChapter 10. The 'Social Processing Chamber' of Gender: Australian Second-Wave Feminist Perspectives on Girls' Socialisation; Isobelle Barrett MeyeringChapter 11. 'And Sweet Girl-Graduates'? From Girl to Woman Through Higher Education; Alison MackinnonChapter 12. The 'Girl-Hawking' War in Colonial Lagos; Oluwakemi A. AdesinaChapter 13. Bio-Politics of Dai Girls: Work, Marriage and a Desirable Lifestyle; Yan HuIndex.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.23082; Girls; Girls -- Social conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319692784
• Related ISBNs: 9783319692777
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