{"product_id":"girlhood-a-global-history-paperback-softback-9780813547053","title":"Girlhood; A Global History (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813547053","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGirlhood\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Global History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJennifer Helgren (Edited by), Colleen Vasconcellos (Edited by), Jennifer Helgren (Introduction by), Miriam Forman-Brunell (Foreword by), Lenie Brouwer (Contributions by), Christine Cheater (Contributions by), Corrie Decker (Contributions by), Marion den Uyl (Contributions by), S. Duff (Contributions by), E. Thomas Ewing (Contributions by), Jessamy Harvey (Contributions by), Jesse Hingson (Contributions by), Krista Jones (Contributions by), Melissa Klapper (Contributions by), Ann Kordas (Contributions by), Liat Kozma (Contributions by), Fran Martin (Contributions by), Lisa Ossian (Contributions by), Kathryn Sloan (Contributions by), Patricia Sloane-White (Contributions by), Nancy Stockdale (Contributions by), Jan Voogd (Contributions by), Peter Wien (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813547053\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 March 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e440 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.8 cm, 0.626 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"This volume presents fresh scholarship on the history of girls' cultures and will become an oft-cited, first important collection that helps define the burgeoning field of the history of children and youth.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Jay Mechling (professor of American studies, University of California, Davis) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Provides the field of girl-centered research with new insights, the most important being that the notion of girlhood is not uniform and fixed, but diverse and dynamic.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - Helma Van Leirop (Tilburg University\/Leiden University, IRSCL online review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eGirlhood\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eForeword \/ Miriam Forman-Brunell\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Jennifer Helgren \/ Colleen A. Vasconcellos\u003cbr\u003e Toward Political Agency for Girls: Mapping the Discourses of Girlhood Globally \/ Jackie Kirk \/ Claudia Mitchell \/ Jacqueline Reid-Walsh\u003cbr\u003e Part I Girls' Cultures and Identities\u003cbr\u003e American Jewish Girls and the Politics of Identity, 1860-1920 \/ Melissa R. Klapper\u003cbr\u003e Growing Up in Colonial Algeria: The Case of Assia Djebar \/ Christa Jones\u003cbr\u003e Immigrant Girls in Multicultural Amsterdam: Juggling Ambivalent Cultural Messages \/ Marion Den Uyl \/ Lenie Brouwer\u003cbr\u003e Feminist Girls, Lesbian Comrades: Performances of Critical Girlhood in Taiwan Pop Music \/ Fran Martin\u003cbr\u003e Part II The Politics of Girlhood\u003cbr\u003e Girlhood Memories and the Politics of Justice in Post-Rosas Argentina: The Restitution Suit of Olalla Alvarez \/ Jesse Hingson\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eA Case of Peculiar and Unusual Interest\"\u003cbr\u003e: The Egg Inspectors Union, the AFL, and the British Ministry of Food Confront \"\u003cbr\u003eNegro Girl\"\u003cbr\u003e Egg Candlers \/ Jan Voogd\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eLife Is a Succession of Disappointments\"\u003cbr\u003e: A Soviet Girl Contends with the Stalinist Dictatorship \/ E. Thomas Ewing\u003cbr\u003e Fragilities and Failures, Promises and Patriotism: Elements of Second World War English and American Girlhood, 1939-1945 \/ Lisa L. Ossian\u003cbr\u003e Holy Girl Power Locally and Globally: The Marian Visions of Garabandal, Spain \/ Jessamy Harvey\u003cbr\u003e Rebels, Robots, and All-American Girls: The Ideological Use of Images of Girl Gymnasts during the Cold War \/ Ann Kordas\u003cbr\u003e Part III The Education of Girls\u003cbr\u003e Palestinian Girls and the British Missionary Enterprise, 1847-1948 \/ Nancy L. Stockdale\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eThe Right Kind of Ambition\"\u003cbr\u003e: Discourses of Femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895-1910 \/ S. E. Duff\u003cbr\u003e Stolen Girlhood: Australia's Assimilation Policies and Aboriginal Girls \/ Christine Cheater\u003cbr\u003e Fathers, Daughters, and Institutions: Coming of Age in Mombasa's Colonial Schools \/ Corrie Decker\u003cbr\u003e Mothers of Warriors: Girls in a Youth Debate of Interwar Iraq \/ Peter Wien\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eHomemaker' Can Include the World\"\u003cbr\u003e: Female Citizenship and Internationalism in the Postwar Camp Fire Girls \/ Jennifer Helgren\u003cbr\u003e Part IV Girls to Women: Work, Marriage, and Sexuality\u003cbr\u003e From Chattel to \"\u003cbr\u003eBreeding Wenches\"\u003cbr\u003e: Abolitionism, Girlhood, and Jamaican Slavery \/ Colleen A. Vasconcellos\u003cbr\u003e Girls, Labor, and Sex in Precolonial Egypt, 1850-1882 \/ Liat Kozma\u003cbr\u003e Defiant Daughters and the Emancipation of Minors in Nineteenth-Century Mexico \/ Kathryn A. Sloan\u003cbr\u003e The Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood: From \"\u003cbr\u003eSisters\"\u003cbr\u003e to \"\u003cbr\u003eSinners\"\u003cbr\u003e in One Generation \/ Patricia Sloane-White\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735314166040,"sku":"9780813547053","price":30.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/girlhood-a-global-history-paperback-softback-9780813547053","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}