How young ladies became girls : the Victorian origins of American girlhood /
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...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2002]
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| Առցանց հասանելիություն: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vkr8w |
Բովանդակություն:
- Daughters' lives and the work of the middle-class home
- Writing and self-culture : the contest over the meaning of literacy
- Reading and the development of taste
- Houses, families, rooms of one's own
- Interiors : bodies, souls, moods
- Competitive practices : sentiment and scholarship in secondary schools
- High school culture : gender and generation
- Friendship, fun, and the city streets
- Commencement : leaving school, going home, growing up
- New girls, new women.