edited by Jennifer Helgren and Colleen Vasconcellos contributions by E. Thomas Ewing, Jessamy Harvey, Jesse Hingson, Krista Jones, Melissa Klapper, Ann Kordas, Liat Kozma, Fran Martin, Lisa Ossian, Kathryn Sloan, Patricia Sloane-White, Nancy Stockdale, Jan Voogd, Peter Wien, Lenie Brouwer, Christine Cheater, Corrie Decker, Marion den Uyl and S. Duff introduction by Jennifer Helgren foreword by Miriam Forman-Brunell
Rutgers University Press, 2010 eISBN: 978-0-8135-7908-5 | Cloth: 978-0-8135-4704-6 | Paper: 978-0-8135-4705-3 Library of Congress Classification HQ798.G5255 2010 Dewey Decimal Classification 305.23082
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.
REVIEWS
"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."
— Jay Mechling, professor of American studies, University of California, Davis
"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."
— Helma Van Leirop, Tilburg University/Leiden University, IRSCL online review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
