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...

詳細記述

書誌詳細
第一著者: Hunter, Jane, 1949-
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: New Haven : Yale University Press [2002]
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vkr8w
目次:
  • 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.