ISBN:
9780415623216
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (386 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Women's History Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
DDC:
305.2/3/0941
Keywords:
Teenage girls -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Teenage girls -- Education -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
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Feminism ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century
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Great Britain ; Social life and customs ; 19th century
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Teenage girls ; Education ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century
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Teenage girls ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Girls learn about "femininity" from childhood onwards, first through their relationships in the family, and later from their teachers and peers. Using sources which vary from diaries to Inspector's reports, this book studies the socialization of middle- and working-class girls in late Victorian and early-Edwardian England. It traces the ways in which schooling at all social levels at this time tended to reinforce lessons in the sexual division of labour and patterns of authority between men and women, which girls had already learned at home. Considering the social anxieties that helped to shap
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 First lessons in femininity: the experience of family life; 2 Schooling, college and femininity: some experiences of middle -class girls; 3 Good wives and little mothers: educational provision for working-class girls; 4 Adolescent girlhood: autonomy versus dependence; 5 Feminist perspectives and responses; Notes; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
