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Girlhood in America, an encyclopedia, Miriam Forman-Brunell, editor ; foreword by Susan J. Douglas

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Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Girlhood in America

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Miriam Forman-Brunell, editor ; foreword by Susan J. Douglas

The American family

an encyclopedia

Girls used to be second-class citizens. Today they are coming into their own. Still, girlsʼ lives, their experiences and their roles in the social, cultural, economic and political history of the United States have been widely overlooked. This groundbreaking reference work presents more than 100 signed articles by 98 high-profile interdisciplinary scholars, covering girlhood in North American from the first settlements to the present from a multitude of historical perspectives. Readers will find an impressive array of information, research data, scholarly interpretations and observations. Girlhood in America describes how portrayals of girls in childrenʼs literature, magazines, movies, toys, music and other media have deeply influenced girlsʼ perceptions of themselves and examines rites of passage in multicultural contexts. Excerpts from diaries, memoirs and autobiographical novels, along with more than 150 photographs, illustrate girlsʼ subjective experiences throughout history

v. 1. Acquaintance rape -- Adolescent health -- Adoption -- Advice books -- African American girls in the twentieth century -- Allowances and spending money -- American Girls collection -- Arts and crafts -- Asian American girls -- Babysitting -- Barbie -- Bat Mitzvah -- Birth control -- Body image -- Camp Fire Girls -- Captivity -- Cars -- Catholic girls -- Cheerleaders -- Chicana girls -- Child abuse -- Child guidance -- Clothing -- Collecting -- College girls -- Comic books -- Communication -- Consumer culture -- Cosmetics -- Dance classes -- Dances and dancing -- Dating and courtship -- Daughters and fathers -- Daughters and mothers -- Depression and girls -- Diaries -- Disabilities -- Dollhouses -- Dolls -- Domestic service -- Domesticity -- Eating disorders -- Education of girls -- Emotions -- Enslaved girls of African descent -- Fairy tales -- Fan clubs -- Female sexuality -- 4-H -- Free girls of African descent -- Frontier girls -- Gifted girls -- Girl Gangs -- Girl power -- Girl Scouts -- Girls and sweets -- Girls' culture -- Girls' fiction -- Girls' magazines -- Girls' rooms -- Graffiti -- Hair -- Handbags -- Home economics education -- Hygiene -- Immigration -- Indentured servantsv. 2. Jewish education of girls -- Juvenile delinquents -- Kinaalda -- Latina girls -- Learning disabilities, reading disorders, and girls -- Lesbians -- Literacy -- Little mothers -- Mathematics and science -- Mennonite girls -- Menstruation -- Mill girls -- Movies, adolescent girls in -- Nancy Drew mysteries -- Native American girls -- Orphans and orphanages -- Pets -- Pickford, Mary -- Play -- Pocahontas -- Prom -- Psychotherapy -- Punk rock -- Puritan girls -- La Quinceanera -- Radical feminism -- Reading -- Red diaper girls -- Relational theory -- Riot girls -- Rural girls -- Samplers -- Saturday evening girls -- Sexual harassment -- Slumber parties -- Sororities -- Southern belles -- Sports -- Substance abuse -- Suicidal behavior in girls -- Summer camps for girls -- Surfer girls -- Tea parties -- Technology -- Teen pregnancy -- Teenybopper -- Television -- Temple, Shirley -- Tomboys -- Witchcraft -- Work -- Zines