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Bibliographic Details
Title: Girlhood in America [2 Volumes]: An ...
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
About this title
This groundbreaking reference work presents more than 100 articles by 98 high-profile interdisciplinary scholars, covering all aspects of girls' roles in American society, past and present.
· Includes more than 120 essays incorporating the most recent research on topics ranging from acquaintance rape to tea parties, from Nancy Drew to Riot Girls
· An extensive bibliography provides suggestions for further reading from diverse sources such as T. S. Arthur's Advice to Young Ladies (1848) to Tech-Savvy: Educating Girls for the New Computer Age from the AAUW Educational Foundation (2000)
The American girl is not the middle-class white girl of popular imagination. She's a multitude—a vibrant spectrum of experience that encompasses immigrant and Native American girls, Red Diaper girls and surfer girls, girl gangs and sorority members, mill workers and Girl Scouts, lesbians, and little mothers.
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