Girlhood : a global history / / edited by Jennifer Helgren and Colleen A. Vasconcellos ; with a foreword by Miriam Forman-Brunell.

• Superior document: Rutgers series in childhood studies
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Helgren, Jennifer, 1972-; Vasconcellos, Colleen A., 1973-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Rutgers series in childhood studies.
• Physical Description: xvi, 422 p.

Table of Contents

American Jewish girls and the politics of identity, 1860-1920 / Melissa R. Klapper -- Growing up in colonial Algeria : the case of Assia Djebar / Christa Jones -- Immigrant girls in multicultural Amsterdam : juggling ambivalent cultural messages / Marion den Uyl and Lenie Brouwer -- Feminist girls, lesbian comrades : performances of critical girlhood in Taiwan pop music / Fran Martin -- Girlhood memories and the politics of justice in post-Rosas Argentina : the restitution suit of Olalla Alvarez / Jesse Hingson -- 'A case of peculiar and unusual interest' : the Egg Inspectors Union, the AFL, and the British Ministry of Food confront 'Negro girl' egg candlers / Jan Voogd -- 'Life is a succession of disappointments' : a Soviet girl contends with the Stalinist dictatorshp / E. Thomas Ewing -- Fragilities and failures, promises and patriotism : elements of Second World War English and American girlhood, 1939-1945 / Lisa L. Ossian -- Holy girl power locally and globally : the Marian visions of Garabandal, Spain / Jessamy Harvey -- Rebels, robots, and all-American girls : the ideological use of images of girl gymnasts during the Cold War / Ann Kordas -- Palestinian girls and the British missionary enterprise, 1847-1948 / Nancy L. Stockdale -- 'The right kind of ambition' : discourses of femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895-1910 / S.E. Duff -- Stolen girlhood : Australia's assimilation policies and aboriginal girls / Christine Cheater -- Fathers, daughters, and institutions : coming of age in Mombasa's colonial schools / Corrie Decker -- Mothers of warriors : girls in a youth debate of interwar Iraq / Peter Wien -- "'Homemaker' can include the world" : female citizenship and internationalism in the postwar camp fire girls / Jennifer Helgren -- From chattel to 'breeding wenches' : abolitionism, girlhood, and Jamaican slavery / Colleen A. Vasconcellos -- Girls, labor, and sex in precolonial Egypt, 1850-1882 / Liat Kozma -- Defiant daughters and the emancipation of minors in nineteenth-century Mexico / Kathryn A. Sloan -- The shifting status of middle-class Malay girlhood : from 'sisters' to 'sinners' in one generation / Patricia Sloane-White.