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Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
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Focusing on six popular British girls' periodicals, Kristine Moruzi
explores the debate about the shifting nature of Victorian girlhood
between 1850 and 1915. During an era of significant political,
social, and economic change, girls' periodicals demonstrate the
difficulties of fashioning a coherent, consistent model of
girlhood. The mixed-genre format of these magazines, Moruzi
suggests, allowed inconsistencies and tensions between competing
feminine ideals to exist within the same publication. Adopting a
case study approach, Moruzi shows that the Monthly Packet, the Girl
of the Period Miscellany, the Girl's Own Paper, Atalanta, the Young
Woman, and the Girl's Realm each attempted to define and refine a
unique type of girl, particularly the religious girl, the 'Girl of
the Period,' the healthy girl, the educated girl, the marrying
girl, and the modern girl. These periodicals reflected the
challenges of embracing the changing conditions of girls' lives
while also attempting to maintain traditional feminine ideals of
purity and morality. By analyzing the competing discourses within
girls' periodicals, Moruzi's book demonstrates how they were able
to frame feminine behaviour in ways that both reinforced and
redefined the changing role of girls in nineteenth-century society
while also allowing girl readers the opportunity to respond to
these definitions.
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