TY  - GEN
T1  - How young ladies became girls : the Victorian origins of American girlhood
A1  - Hunter, Jane, 1949-
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2002
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn884499425
AB  - Publisher's description: Based on an extraordinary array of diaries and letters, this engaging book explores the shifting experiences of adolescent girls in the late nineteenth century. What emerges is a world on the cusp of change. By convention, middle-class girls stayed at home, where their reading exposed them to powerful images of self-sacrificing women. Yet in reality girls in their teens increasingly attended schools--especially newly opened high schools, where they outnumbered boys. There they competed for grades and honor directly against male classmates. Before and after school they joined a public world beyond adult supervision-- strolling city streets, flagging down male friends, visiting soda fountains. Poised between childhood and adulthood, no longer behaving with the reserve of ₃young ladies, ₄ adolescent females sparred with classmates and ventured new identities. In leaving school, female students left an institution that had treated them more equally than any other they would encounter in the course of their lives. Jane Hunter shows that they often went home in sadness and regret. But over the long term, their school experiences as "girls" foreshadowed both the turn-of-the-century emergence of the independent "New Woman" and the birth of adolescence itself
OP  - 478
CN  - HT690.U6 H86 2002eb
SN  - 9780300157284
SN  - 0300157282
SN  - 0300092636
SN  - 9780300092639
KW  - Middle class : Northeastern States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Women : Northeastern States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Girls : Northeastern States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Home economics : Northeastern States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Bourgeoisie : États-Unis (Nord-Est) : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Femmes : États-Unis (Nord-Est) : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Filles : États-Unis (Nord-Est) : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Économie domestique : États-Unis (Nord-Est) : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Girls
KW  - Home economics
KW  - Middle class
KW  - Women
KW  - Northeastern States
KW  - Mittelstand
KW  - Soziale Situation
KW  - USA : Nordoststaaten
KW  - Frau
KW  - Meisjes.
KW  - Jongeren.
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - History
ER  -