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Informationen zum Autor JENNIFER HELGREN is an assistant professor of history at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. COLLEEN A. VASCONCELLOS is an assistant professor at University of West Georgia. Klappentext 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, thematically-arranged essays and case studies illuminate the various continuities and differences in girls' lives across culture and region. Zusammenfassung 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, thematically-arranged essays and case studies illuminate the various continuities and differences in girls' lives across culture and region. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword / Miriam Forman-Brunell Acknowledgments Introduction / Jennifer Helgren / Colleen A. Vasconcellos Toward Political Agency for Girls: Mapping the Discourses of Girlhood Globally / Jackie Kirk / Claudia Mitchell / Jacqueline Reid-Walsh Part I Girls' Cultures and Identities 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 / Lenie Brouwer Feminist Girls, Lesbian Comrades: Performances of Critical Girlhood in Taiwan Pop Music / Fran Martin Part II The Politics of Girlhood 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 Dictatorship / 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 Part III The Education of Girls 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 Part IV Girls to Women: Work, Marriage, and Sexuality 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 Contributors Index...
