"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)
