Secret gardens, satanic mills : placing girls in European history, 1750-1960 / edited by Mary Jo Maynes, Birgitte Søland, and Christina Benninghaus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maynes, Mary Jo.

Søland, Birgitte, 1959-

Benninghaus, Christina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Girls--Europe--Social conditions.

Girls.

Girls--Europe--History.

Physical Description:

x, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2005]

Summary:

Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills offers a comparative history of Europeangirlhood from 1750 to 1960, with a focus on Britain, France, and Germany. It coversdiverse issues in the lives of girls, from sexuality and leisure to social roles inthe family and the economy. A corrective to historians' traditionally maleorientation toward youth, the volume brings girls to the center of European history, emphasizing their importance in European economics and culture. It also identifiescultural and temporal differences within the European experience, particularly withregard to the spaces girls occupied. While the contributors appreciate theimportance of systemic and institutional factors in shaping young girls' lives, theyare also sensitive to the ways in which girls have been able to resist dominance andcreate their own destinies. The contributors are Kathleen Alaimo, Christina Benninghaus, Pamela Cox, Clare Crowston, Anna Davin, Andreas Gestrich, C line Grasser, Irene Hardach-Pinke, Elizabeth Bright Jones, Clair Langhamer, MaryJo Maynes, Carol E. Morgan, Tammy M. Proctor, Rebecca Rogers, Karin Schmidlechner, Deborah Simonton, Birgitte S land, and Mary Lynn Stewart.

Contents:

Part 1 Working Girls' Labor and Lives in the Preindustrial and Early Industrial Eras

1 Bringing Up Girls: Work in Preindustrial Europe / Deborah Simonton 23

2 In Search of Arachne's Daughters: European Girls, Economic Development, and the Textile Trade, 1750-1880 / Mary Jo Maynes 38

3 After Dark: Girls' Leisure, Work, and Sexuality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Rural Southwest Germany / Andreas Gestrich 54

4 An Industrious Revolution in Late Seventeenth-Century Paris: New Vocational Training for Adolescent Girls and the Creation of Female Labor Markets / Clare Crowston 69

5 Work for Girls? The Small Metal Industries in England, 1840-1915 / Carol E. Morgan 83

Part 2 Spaces of Socialization of Middle- and Upper-Class Girls in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

6 Managing Girls' Sexuality among the German Upper Classes / Irene Hardach-Pinke 101

7 Porous Walls and Prying Eyes: Control, Discipline, and Morality in Boarding Schools for Girls in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France / Rebecca Rogers 115

8 Good Girls versus Blooming Maidens: The Building of Female Middle- and Upper-Class Identities in the Garden, England and France, 1820-1870 / Celine Grasser 131

Part 3 Redefining Girlhood: Competing Discourses on Female Adolescence, 1880-1950

9 The Authority of Experts: The Crisis of Female Adolescence in France and England, 1880-1920 / Kathleen Alaimo 149

10 Sex Education and Sexual Initiation of Bourgeois French Girls, 1880-1930 / Mary Lynn Stewart 164

11 In Their Own Words: Girls' Representations of Growing Up in Germany in the 1920s / Christina Benninghaus 178

12 Girls in Trouble: Defining Female Delinquency, Britain, 1900-1950 / Pamela Cox 192

Part 4 Changing Patterns of Work and Leisure, 1880-1960

13 City Girls: Young Women, New Employment, and the City, London, 1880-1910 / Anna Davin 209

14 Girls in Court: Magde versus Their Employers in Saxony, 1880-1914 / Elizabeth Bright Jones 224

15 "Something for the Girls": Organized Leisure in Europe, 1890-1939 / Tammy M. Proctor 239

16 Employment and Enjoyment: Female Coming-of-Age Experiences in Denmark, 1880s-1930s / Birgitte Soland 254

17 Leisure, Pleasure, and Courtship: Young Women in England, 1920-1960 / Claire Langhamer 269

18 The Emergence of the Modern Teenage Girl in Postwar Austria / Karin Schmidlechner 284.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0253344492

0253217105

OCLC:

54446231