How young ladies became girls : the Victorian origins of American girlhood /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New Haven, Conn. :
Yale University Press,
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- Work:
- Daughters' lives and the work of the middle-class home
- Writing and self-culture
- Reading and the development of taste
- Geographies:
- Houses, families, rooms of one's own
- Interiors
- Competitive practices
- High school culture
- Friendship, fun, and the city streets
- Endings:
- Commencement
- New girls, new women.