A History of the Girl Formation, Education and Identity
This book is centered on the history of the girl from the medieval period through to the early twenty-first century. Authored by an international team of scholars, the volume explores the transition from adolescent girlhood to young womanhood, the formati
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Edited by Mary O’Dowd and June Purvis
A History of the Girl
Mary O’Dowd • June Purvis Editors
A History of the Girl Formation, Education and Identity
Editors Mary O’Dowd Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, UK
June Purvis University of Portsmouth Portsmouth, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-69277-7 ISBN 978-3-319-69278-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69278-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017960187 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover designed by Jenny Vong Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Contents
1 Introduction 1 Mary O’Dowd and June Purvis 2 Girls at Work in the Middle Ages 13 Sophie Brouquet 3 From ‘Young Women’ to ‘Female Adolescents’: Dutch Advice Literature during the Long Nineteenth Century 33 Marja van Tilburg 4 Adolescent Girlhood in Eighteenth-Century Ireland 53 Mary O’Dowd 5 Young Women, Textile Labour, and Marriage in Europe and China around 1800 75 Ann Waltner and Mary Jo Maynes 6 The Education of European and Chinese Girls at Home in the Nineteenth Century 103 Fang Qin and Emily Bruce
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7 ‘[T]he Children Bobbed Like Corks on the Tide of Adult Life’: The Political Education of the Pankhurst Girls in Late Victorian England 123 June Purvis 8 Girls as Members of an Educated Elite: The Bulgarian Case, c. 1850–1950 143 Georgeta Nazarska 9 Did the Bengali Woman Have a Girlhood? A Study of Colonialism, Education, and the Evolution of the Girl Child in Nineteenth-Century Bengal 163 Asha Islam Nayeem 10 The ‘Social Processing Chamber’ of Gender: Australian Second-Wave Feminist Perspectives on Girls’ Soci
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