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Girls Growing up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

By Carol Dyhouse

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2012
ISBN
9781136248184, 9780415623216
LCC
HQ798 .D85
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1124346 bytes)
Series
Routledge Library Editions: Women's History Ser.
Pages
241\0
Time added
2023-08-04 04:12:42
Teenage girls -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th

Description

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 shape the curriculum offered to working-class girls through the period 1870-1920, the book goes on to focus on the emergence of a social psychology of adolescent girlhood in the early-twentieth century and finally, examines the relationship between feminism and girls' education.

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