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Girlhood: A Global History
Vasconcello Helgren
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Series
Series in Childhood Studies
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813547053
SKU
V9780813547053
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Ref
99-1
About Vasconcello Helgren
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 for Girlhood: A Global History
"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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more