Girlhood: A Global History (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies)

Girlhood: A Global History (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies)

Professor Jennifer Helgren (Editor), Professor Colleen Vasconcellos (Editor), Professor Jennifer Helgren (Introduction by), Miriam Forman-Brunell (Foreword by), Professor Lenie Brouwer (Contributions by), Professor Christine Cheater (Contributions by), Professor Corrie Decker (Contributions by), Professor Marion den Uyl (Contributions by), Professor S. Duff (Contributions by), Professor E. Thomas Ewing (Contributions by), Professor Jessamy Harvey (Contributions by), Professor Jesse Hingson (Contributions by), Professor Krista Jones (Contributions by), Professor Melissa Klapper (Contributions by), Professor Ann Kordas (Contributions by), Professor Liat Kozma (Contributions by), Professor Fran Martin (Contributions by), Professor Lisa Ossian (Contributions by), Professor Kathryn Sloan (Contributions by), Professor Patricia Sloane-White (Contributions by), Professor Nancy Stockdale (Contributions by), Professor Jan Voogd (Contributions by), Professor Peter Wien (Contributions by)
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Publication Date: March 8th, 2012
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
9780813547053
Pages:
440
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Description

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.

About the Author

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.

Praise for Girlhood: A Global History (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies)

"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

"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

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