1st Edition
Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
By Carol Dyhouse
Copyright 1981
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Carol Dyhouse
