Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The life cycle of the female slave / Deborah Gray White — Grown girls, highly cultivated : female education in an Antebellum southern family / Anya Jabour — Oh I love mother, I love her power : Shaker spirit possession and the performance of desire / Susan McCully — Women on the town : sexual exchange and prostitution / Christine Stansell — If we get the girls, we get the race : missionary education of Native American girls / Carol Devens — Rosebloom and pure white, or so it seemed / Mary Niall Mitchell — The female world of love and ritual : relations between women in nineteenth-century America / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg — Psychosomatic illness in history : the Green Sickness among nineteenth-century adolescent girls / Nancy M. Theriot — The Caddie Woodlawn Syndrome : american girlhood in the nineteenth century / Anne Scott MacLeod — The politics of dollhood in nineteenth-century america / Miriam Forman-Brunell — Inscribing the self in the heart of the family : diaries and girlhood in late-Victorian America / Jane H. Hunter — Reading Little women : the many lives of a text / Barbara Sicherman.
- Provides scholars, instructors, and students with the most influential essays that have defined the field of American girls’ history and culture. A relatively new and energetic field of inquiry, girl-centered research is critical for a fuller understanding of women and gender, a deeper consideration of childhood and adolescence, and a greater acknowledgment of the significance of generation as a historical force in American culture and society. – Back Cover.
Subjects:
- Girls — United States — History — 19th century.
- Girls — United States — Social conditions.
- United States — Social life and customs — 19th century.
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