Girlhood: A Global History

Contents

Contents Foreword miriam forman-brunell — xi Acknowledgments — xv Introduction jennifer helgren and colleen a. vasconcellos — 1 Toward Political Agency for Girls: Mapping the Discourses of Girlhood Globally jackie kirk, claudia mitchell, and jacqueline reid-walsh — 14 Part I Girls’ Cultures and Identities 31 1 American Jewish Girls and the Politics of Identity, 1860–1920 melissa r. klapper — 33 2 Growing Up in Colonial Algeria: The Case of Assia Djebar christa jones — 49 3 Immigrant Girls in Multicultural Amsterdam: Juggling Ambivalent Cultural Messages marion den uyl and lenie brouwer — 65 4 Feminist Girls, Lesbian Comrades: Performances of Critical Girlhood in Taiwan Pop Music fran martin — 83 Part II The Politics of Girlhood 103 5 Girlhood Memories and the Politics of Justice in Post-Rosas Argentina: The Restitution Suit of Olalla Alvarez jesse hingson — 105 6 “A Case of Peculiar and Unusual Interest”: The Egg Inspectors Union, the AFL, and the British Ministry of Food Confront “Negro Girl” Egg Candlers jan voogd — 124 vii 7 “Life Is a Succession of Disappointments”: A Soviet Girl Contends with the Stalinist Dictatorship e. thomas ewing — 142 8 Fragilities and Failures, Promises and Patriotism: Elements of Second World War English and American Girlhood, 1939–1945 lisa l. ossian — 162 9 Holy Girl Power Locally and Globally: The Marian Visions of Garabandal, Spain jessamy harvey — 179 10 Rebels, Robots, and All-American Girls: The Ideological Use of Images of Girl Gymnasts during the Cold War ann kordas — 195 Part III The Education of Girls 215 11 Palestinian Girls and the British Missionary Enterprise, 1847–1948 nancy l. stockdale — 217 12 “The Right Kind of Ambition”: Discourses of Femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895–1910 s. e. duff — 234 13 Stolen Girlhood: Australia’s Assimilation Policies and Aboriginal Girls christine cheater — 250 14 Fathers, Daughters, and Institutions: Coming of Age in Mombasa’s Colonial Schools corrie decker — 268 15 Mothers of Warriors: Girls in a Youth Debate of Interwar Iraq peter wien — 289 16 “‘Homemaker’ Can Include the World”: Female Citizenship and Internationalism in the Postwar Camp Fire Girls jennifer helgren — 304 Part IV Girls to Women: Work, Marriage, and Sexuality 323 17 From Chattel to “Breeding Wenches”: Abolitionism, Girlhood, and Jamaican Slavery colleen a. vasconcellos — 325 18 Girls, Labor, and Sex in Precolonial Egypt, 1850–1882 liat kozma — 344 contents viii Contents ix 19 Defiant Daughters and the Emancipation of Minors in Nineteenth-Century Mexico kathryn a. sloan — 363 20 The Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood: From “Sisters” to “Sinners” in One Generation patricia sloane-white — 382 Contributors — 403 Index — 407 ...