Girlhood

JENNIFER HELGREN is an assistant professor of history at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.COLLEEN A. VASCONCELLOS is an assistant professor at University of West Georgia.

• Foreword / Miriam Forman-BrunellAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Jennifer Helgren / Colleen A. VasconcellosToward Political Agency for Girls: Mapping the Discourses of Girlhood Globally / Jackie Kirk / Claudia Mitchell / Jacqueline Reid-WalshPart I Girls' Cultures and IdentitiesAmerican Jewish Girls and the Politics of Identity, 1860-1920 / Melissa R. KlapperGrowing Up in Colonial Algeria: The Case of Assia Djebar / Christa JonesImmigrant Girls in Multicultural Amsterdam: Juggling Ambivalent Cultural Messages / Marion Den Uyl / Lenie BrouwerFeminist Girls, Lesbian Comrades: Performances of Critical Girlhood in Taiwan Pop Music / Fran MartinPart II The Politics of GirlhoodGirlhood Memories and the Politics of Justice in Post-Rosas Argentina: The Restitution Suit of Olalla Alvarez / Jesse Hingson"A Case of Peculiar and Unusual Interest": The Egg Inspectors Union, the AFL, and the British Ministry of Food Confront "Negro Girl" Egg Candlers / Jan Voogd"Life Is a Succession of Disappointments": A Soviet Girl Contends with the Stalinist Dictatorship / E. Thomas EwingFragilities and Failures, Promises and Patriotism: Elements of Second World War English and American Girlhood, 1939-1945 / Lisa L. OssianHoly Girl Power Locally and Globally: The Marian Visions of Garabandal, Spain / Jessamy HarveyRebels, Robots, and All-American Girls: The Ideological Use of Images of Girl Gymnasts during the Cold War / Ann KordasPart III The Education of GirlsPalestinian Girls and the British Missionary Enterprise, 1847-1948 / Nancy L. Stockdale"The Right Kind of Ambition": Discourses of Femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895-1910 / S. E. DuffStolen Girlhood: Australia's Assimilation Policies and Aboriginal Girls / Christine CheaterFathers, Daughters, and Institutions: Coming of Age in Mombasa's Colonial Schools / Corrie DeckerMothers of Warriors: Girls in a Youth Debate of Interwar Iraq / Peter Wien"Homemaker' Can Include the World": Female Citizenship and Internationalism in the Postwar Camp Fire Girls / Jennifer HelgrenPart IV Girls to Women: Work, Marriage, and SexualityFrom Chattel to "Breeding Wenches": Abolitionism, Girlhood, and Jamaican Slavery / Colleen A. VasconcellosGirls, Labor, and Sex in Precolonial Egypt, 1850-1882 / Liat KozmaDefiant Daughters and the Emancipation of Minors in Nineteenth-Century Mexico / Kathryn A. SloanThe Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood: From "Sisters" to "Sinners" in One Generation / Patricia Sloane-WhiteContributorsIndex

"This volume presents fresh scholarship on the history of girls' cultures and will become an oft-cited, first important collection that helps define the burgeoning field of the history of children and youth." - Jay Mechling (professor of American studies, University of California, Davis) "Provides the field of girl-centered research with new insights, the most important being that the notion of girlhood is not uniform and fixed, but diverse and dynamic."- Helma Van Leirop (Tilburg University/Leiden University, IRSCL online review)