Girls growing up in late Victorian and Edwardian England / Carol Dyhouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyhouse, Carol, 1948- author.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Women's history.

Routledge library editions. Women's history ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Teenage girls.

Teenage girls--Education--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Feminism--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Feminism.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 tended to reinforce lessons in the sexual division of labour and patterns of authority between men and women, which girls had already learned at home. Considering the social anxieties that helped to

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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; Notes; Index

Notes:

"First published in 1981"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-24817-X

0-203-10410-2

1-283-89544-7

1-136-24818-8

9780203104101

OCLC:

823389715