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Author:

Colman, Penny.

Title:

Girls : a history of growing up female in America / Penny Colman.

Publisher:

Scholastic Reference,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

192 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Girls--United States--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.
Teenage girls--United States--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.
Girls--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
Teenage girls--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
Girls--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-187) and index.

Contents:

1. "It's a girl!" : understanding gender -- 2. By land and by sea : how girls came to America -- 3. In their mothers' footsteps : girls in the early colonial period -- 4. New ideas : girls in the late colonial period -- 5. Making demands : girls in the early nineteenth century -- 6. Diverse lives : girls in the late nineteenth century -- 7. New opportunities : girls in the late nineteenth century -- 8. "Prize it!" : girls in the early twentieth century -- 8. Changes and challenges : girls in the mid-twentieth century -- 9. Unprecedented possibilities : girls approaching the millennium.

Summary:

Traces the history of growing up female in America as told by the girls themselves in journals, household manuals, letters, slave narratives, and other primary sources.

ISBN:

9780439222341 (pbk.)
0439222346 (pbk.)
9780590371292 (hc)
0590371290 (hc)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41315427

LCCN:

99028150

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