How Young Ladies Became Girls
| Author | : Jane H. Hunter |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 496 |
| Release | : 2002-01-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780300092639 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0300092636 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis How Young Ladies Became Girls by : Jane H. Hunter
Download or read book How Young Ladies Became Girls written by Jane H. Hunter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There they competed for grades and honor directly against male classmates. Before and after school they joined a public world beyond adult supervision - strolling city streets, flagging down male friends, visiting soda foundations." "Over the long term, their school experiences as "girls" foreshadowed both the turn-of-the-century emergence of the independent "New Women" and the birth of adolescence itself."--BOOK JACKET.
