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How Young Ladies Became Girls - The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood (Hardcover)
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How Young Ladies Became Girls - The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood (Hardcover)
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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
"young ladies," 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.
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