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A History of the Girl

Formation, Education and Identity

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Editors:
  1. Mary O'Dowd

    1. Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

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  2. June Purvis

    1. University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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  • Explores themes in the history of the girl and girlhood in ten countries in four continents
  • Compares the history of girls geographically as well as chronologically
  • Considers the history of the education of girls as well as the contribution of girls to the world of work

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Mary O’Dowd, June Purvis
    Pages 1-11

  3. Girls at Work in the Middle Ages

    • Sophie Brouquet
    Pages 13-31

  4. From ‘Young Women’ to ‘Female Adolescents’: Dutch Advice Literature during the Long Nineteenth Century

    • Marja van Tilburg
    Pages 33-52

  5. Adolescent Girlhood in Eighteenth-Century Ireland

    • Mary O’Dowd
    Pages 53-73

  6. Young Women, Textile Labour, and Marriage in Europe and China around 1800

    • Ann Waltner, Mary Jo Maynes
    Pages 75-102

  7. The Education of European and Chinese Girls at Home in the Nineteenth Century

    • Fang Qin, Emily Bruce
    Pages 103-122

  8. ‘[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
    Pages 123-142

  9. Girls as Members of an Educated Elite: The Bulgarian Case, c. 1850–1950

    • Georgeta Nazarska
    Pages 143-161

  10. 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
    Pages 163-178

  11. The ‘Social Processing Chamber’ of Gender: Australian Second-Wave Feminist Perspectives on Girls’ Socialisation

    • Isobelle Barrett Meyering
    Pages 179-200

  12. ‘And Sweet Girl-Graduates’? From Girl to Woman Through Higher Education

    • Alison Mackinnon
    Pages 201-223

  13. The ‘Girl-Hawking War’ in Colonial Lagos

    • Oluwakemi A. Adesina
    Pages 225-236

  14. Biopolitics of Dai Girls: Work, Marriage, and a Desirable Lifestyle

    • Yan Hu
    Pages 237-254

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 255-266
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About this book

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 formation and education of girls in the home and in school, and paid work undertaken by girls in different parts of the world and at different times. It highlights the value of a comparative approach to the history of the girl, as the contributors point to shared attitudes to girlhood and the similarity of the experiences of girls in workplaces across the world. Contributions to the volume also emphasise the central role of girls in the global economy, from their participation in the textile industry in the eighteenth century, through to the migration of girls to urban centres in twentieth-century Africa and China.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

    Mary O'Dowd

  • University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

    June Purvis

About the editors

Mary O’Dowd is Professor of Gender History at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Her publications include A History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800 (2005) and Reading the Irish Woman Case Studies in Cultural Encounters and Exchange (co-authored with Gerardine Meaney and Bernadette Whelan, 2014). She has recently completed a co-authored study of the history of marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925.


June Purvis is Emeritus Professor of Women's and Gender History at Portsmouth University, UK. She is Founding and Managing Editor of the journal Women’s History Review and author of Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography (2002) and Christabel Pankhurst: A Biography (2018), as well as co-editor of thirteen edited book collections. She is Chair of the Women’s History Network and Treasurer and Secretary of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A History of the Girl

  • Book Subtitle: Formation, Education and Identity

  • Editors: Mary O'Dowd, June Purvis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69278-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69277-7Published: 23 April 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09879-7Published: 24 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69278-4Published: 10 April 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 266

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Social History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Gender Studies

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