A History of the Girl: Formation, Education and Identity

Chapter 1. Introduction; Mary O'Dowd and June Purvis Chapter 2. Girls at Work in the Middle Ages; Sophie Brouquet Chapter 3. From 'Young Women' to 'Female Adolescents': Dutch Advice Literature During the Long Nineteenth Century; Marja van Tilburg Chapter 4. Adolescent Girlhood in Eighteenth Century Ireland; Mary O'Dowd Chapter 5. Young Woman, Textile Labour and Marriage in Europe and China around 1800; Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner Chapter 6. The Education of European and Chinese Girls at Home in the Nineteenth Century; Emily Bruce and Fang Qin Chapter 7. '[T]he Children Bobbed Like Corks on the Tide of Adult Life': The Political Education of the Pankhurst Girls in Late Victorian England; June Purvis Chapter 8. Girls as Members of an Educated Elite: The Bulgarian Case (1850-1950); Georgeta Nazarska Chapter 9. Did the Bengali Woman have a Girlhood? A Study of Colonialism, Education and the Evolution of the Girl Child in Nineteenth-Century Bengal; Asha Islam Nayeem Chapter 10. The 'Social Processing Chamber' of Gender: Australian Second-Wave Feminist Perspectives on Girls' Socialisation; Isobelle Barrett Meyering Chapter 11. 'And Sweet Girl-Graduates'? From Girl to Woman Through Higher Education; Alison Mackinnon Chapter 12. The 'Girl-Hawking' War in Colonial Lagos; Oluwakemi A. Adesina Chapter 13. Bio-Politics of Dai Girls: Work, Marriage and a Desirable Lifestyle; Yan Hu Index.