This text explores the contribution of magazines to the social construction of female adolescence during a historical period of rapid change and locates the rol

Girlhood, interdisciplinary and global in source, scope, and methodology, examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's lives. Scholars study how age a

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Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and youn

This book examines the construction of adolescent girlhood across a range of genres in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It argues that there was a