Secret gardens, satanic mills : placing girls in European history, 1750-1960 / edited by Mary Jo Maynes, Birgitte Søland, and Christina Benninghaus. - x, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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 -- -- Working girls' labor and lives in the preindustrial and early industrial eras -- Bringing up girls : work in preindustrial Europe / In search of Arachne's daughters : European girls, economic development, and the textile trade, 1750-1880 / After dark : girls' leisure, work, and sexuality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rural southwest Germany / An industrious revolution in late seventeenth-century Paris : new vocational training for adolescent girls and the creation of female labor markets / Work for girls? : the small metal industries in England, 1840-1915 / Spaces of socialization of middle- and upper-class girls in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Managing girls' sexuality among the German upper classes / Porous walls and prying eyes : control, discipline, and morality in boarding schools for girls in mid-nineteenth-century France / Good girls versus blooming maidens : the building of female middle- and upper-glass identities in the garden, England and France, 1820-1870 / Redefining girlhood : competing discourses on female adolescence, 1880-1950 -- The authority of experts : the crisis of female adolescence in France and England, 1880-1920 / Sex education and sexual initiation of bourgeois French girls, 1880-1930 / In their own words : girls' representations of growing up in Germany in the 1920s / Girls in trouble : defining female delinquency, Britain, 1900-1950 / Changing patterns of work and leisure, 1880-1960 -- City girls : young women, new employment, and the city, London, 1880-1910 / Girls in court : Magde versus their employers in Saxony, 1880-1914 / "Something for the girls" : organized leisure in Europe, 1890-1939 / Employment and enjoyment : female coming-of-age experiences in Denmark, 1880s-1930s / Leisure, pleasure, and courtship : young women in England, 1920-1960 / The emergence of the modern teenage girl in postwar Austria / Deborah Simonton -- Mary Jo Maynes -- Andreas Gestrich -- Clare Crowston -- Carol E. Morgan -- Irene Hardach-Pinke -- Rebecca Rogers -- Celine Grasser -- Kathleen Alaimo -- Mary Lynn Stewart -- Christina Benninghaus -- Pamela Cox -- Anna Davin -- Elizabeth Bright Jones -- Tammy M. Proctor -- Birgitte Soland -- Claire Langhamer -- Karin Schmidlechner. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. 2. 6. 7. 8. Pt. 3. 9. 10. 11. 12. Pt. 4. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.

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Girls--Social conditions--Europe
Girls--History--Europe

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