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9780300092639

How Young Ladies Became Girls : The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300092639

  • ISBN10:

    0300092636

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2002-12-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Author Biography

Jane H. Hunter is associate professor of history and director of the program in gender studies at Lewis and Clark College.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1(10)
Work
Daughters' Lives and the Work of the Middle-Class Home
11(27)
Writing and Self-Culture: The Contest Over the Meaning of Literacy
38(19)
Reading and the Development of Taste
57(36)
Geographies
Houses, Families, Rooms of One's Own
93(37)
Interiors: Bodies, Souls, Moods
130(39)
Competitive Practices: Sentiment and Scholarship in Secondary Schools
169(53)
High School Culture: Gender and Generation
222(39)
Friendship, Fun, and the City Streets
261(54)
Endings
Commencement: Leaving School, Going Home, Growing Up
315(53)
New Girls, New Women
368(39)
Notes 407(56)
Bibliography 463(4)
Index 467

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