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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Spaces of socialization of middle and upper-class girls in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Redefining girlhood : competing discourses on female adolescence, 1880-1950 -- Changing patterns of work and leisure, 1880-1960 -- --

Pt. 1. Working girls' labor and lives in the preindustrial and early industrial eras -- 1. Bringing up girls : work in preindustrial Europe / Deborah Simonton -- 2. In search of Arachne's daughters : European girls, economic development, and the textile trade, 1750-1880 / Mary Jo Maynes -- 3. After dark : girls' leisure, work, and sexuality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rural southwest Germany / Andreas Gestrich -- 4. An industrious revolution in late seventeenth-century Paris : new vocational training for adolescent girls and the creation of female labor markets / Clare Crowston -- 5. Work for girls? : the small metal industries in England, 1840-1915 / Carol E. Morgan -- Pt. 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 -- 7. Porous walls and prying eyes : control, discipline, and morality in boarding schools for girls in mid-nineteenth-century France / Rebecca Rogers -- 8. Good girls versus blooming maidens : the building of female middle- and upper-glass identities in the garden, England and France, 1820-1870 / Celine Grasser -- Pt. 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 -- 10. Sex education and sexual initiation of bourgeois French girls, 1880-1930 / Mary Lynn Stewart -- 11. In their own words : girls' representations of growing up in Germany in the 1920s / Christina Benninghaus -- 12. Girls in trouble : defining female delinquency, Britain, 1900-1950 / Pamela Cox -- Pt. 4. Changing patterns of work and leisure, 1880-1960 -- 13. City girls : young women, new employment, and the city, London, 1880-1910 / Anna Davin -- 14. Girls in court : Magde versus their employers in Saxony, 1880-1914 / Elizabeth Bright Jones -- 15. "Something for the girls" : organized leisure in Europe, 1890-1939 / Tammy M. Proctor -- 16. Employment and enjoyment : female coming-of-age experiences in Denmark, 1880s-1930s / Birgitte Soland -- 17. Leisure, pleasure, and courtship : young women in England, 1920-1960 / Claire Langhamer -- 18. The emergence of the modern teenage girl in postwar Austria / Karin Schmidlechner.

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