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Informationen zum Autor edited by Mary Jo Maynes, Birgitte Søland, Christina Benninghaus, with contributions by Katherine Alaimo, Clare Crowston, Pamela Cox, Ann Davin, Andreas Gestrich, Céline Grasser, Irene Hardach, Elizabeth Bright Jones, Claire Langhamer, Carol E Morgan, Tammy M Proctor, Rebecca Rogers, Karin M Schmidlechner, Deborah Simonton, Mary Lynn Stewart Klappentext Proctor, Rebecca Rogers, Karin Schmidlechner, Deborah Simonton, Birgitte Søland, and Mary Lynn Stewart. Zusammenfassung Offers a comparative history of European girlhood from 1750 to 1960, with a focus on Britain, France, and Germany. This volume covers diverse issues in the lives of girls, from sexuality and leisure to social roles in the family and the economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I. Working Girls' Labor and Lives in the Pre-industrial and Early Industrial Eras 1. Deborah Simonton: Bringing up Girls: Work in Pre-Industrial Europe 2. Mary Jo Maynes: In Search of Arachne's Daughters: European Girls, Economic Development, and the Textile Trade, 1750-1880 3. Andreas Gestrich: After Dark: Girls' Leisure, Work and Sexuality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Rural Southwest Germany 4. Clare Crowston: An Industrious Revolution in Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Paris: New Vocational Training for Adolescent Girls and the Creation of Female Labor Markets 5. Carol E. Morgan: Work for Girls? The Small Metal Industries in England, 1840-1915. II. Spaces of Socialization of Middle- and Upper-class Girls in the 18th and 19th Centuries 6. Irene Hardach-Pinke: Managing Girls' Sexuality Among the German Upper Classes 7. Rebecca Rogers: Porous Walls and Prying Eyes: Control, Discipline, and Morality in Boarding Schools for Girls in mid-19th century France. 8. Céline Grasser: Good Girls vs. Blooming Maidens: The Building of Female Middle-Class Identities in the Garden, England and France, 1820-1870. III. Redefining Girlhood: Competing Discourses on Female Adolescence, 1880 - 1950 9. Kathleen Alaimo: The Authority of Experts: The Crisis of Female Adolescence in France and England, 1880-1920. 10. Mary Lynn Stewart: Sex Education and Sexual Initiation of Bourgeois French Girls, 1880-1930. 11. Christina Benninghaus: In Their Own Words: Girls' Representations of Growing Up in Germany in the 1920s. 12. Pamela Cox: Girls in Trouble. Defining Female Delinquency, Britain 1900-1950. IV. Changing Patterns of Work and Leisure, 1880-1960 13. Anna Davin: Young Women and Clerical Work in England, 1880-1910. 14. Elizabeth Jones: Girls in Court: Mägde versus their Employers in Saxony, 1880-1914. 15. Tammy Proctor: 'Something for the girls': Organized Leisure in Europe, 1890-1930. 16. Birgitte Søland: Employment and Enjoyment: Female Coming of Age Experiences in Denmark, 1880-1930. 17. Claire Langhamer: Leisure, Pleasure and Courtship: Young Women in England, 1920-1960. 18. Karin M. Schmidlechner: The Emergence of the Modern Teenage Girl in Austria after World War II. ...
