How to Amuse Yourself and Others
How to Amuse Yourself and Others

Author: Lina Beard

Publisher:

Published: 1887

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13:

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These descriptions of leisure-time activities for Victorian girls were designed to cultivate their curiosity and inventiveness, and to help them gain self-confidence regarding their competence and talents.

Playing with America's Doll
Playing with America's Doll

Author: Emilie Zaslow

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-14

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1137566493

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This critical account of the American Girl brand explores what its books and dolls communicate to girls about femininity, racial identity, ethnicity, and what it means to be an American. Emilie Zaslow begins by tracing the development of American Girl and situates the company’s growth and popularity in a social history of girl power media culture. She then weaves analyses of the collection’s narrative and material representations with qualitative research on mothers and girls. Examining the dolls with both a critical eye and a fan’s curiosity, Zaslow raises questions about the values espoused by this iconic American brand.

Felicity's Theater Kit
Felicity's Theater Kit

Author: Valerie Tripp

Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781562471224

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Shortly before the Revolutionary War, nine-year-old Felicity, who lives in Williamsburg, is torn between supporting the tariff-induced tea boycott and saving her friendship with Elizabeth, a young loyalist from England.

The American Country Girl
The American Country Girl

Author: Martha Foote Crow

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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The American Country Girl is a book by educator and author Martha Foote Crow. It explores the experiences of young American girls growing up and living in the countryside. Crow draws out the often overlooked contribution of farmer's wives and daughters, whose numbers in the whole of America were approaching seven million at the time of writing her book. She also gives a vivid picture of country life and the clash between the Old world of manual tasks and the new world of modern conveniences.

Girlhood in America [2 volumes]
Girlhood in America [2 volumes]

Author: Miriam Forman-Brunell

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2001-06-08

Total Pages: 806

ISBN-13: 1576075508

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This groundbreaking reference work presents more than 100 articles by 98 high-profile interdisciplinary scholars, covering all aspects of girls' roles in American society, past and present. In this comprehensive, readable, two volume encyclopedia, experts from a variety of disciplines contribute pieces to the puzzle of what it means—and what it has meant over the last 400 years—to be a girl in America. The portrait that emerges reveals deep differences in girls' experiences depending on socioeconomic context, religious and ethnic traditions, family life, schools, institutions, and the messages of consumer and popular culture. Girls have been commodified, idealized, trivialized, eroticized, and shaped by the powerful forces of popular culture, from Little Women to Barbie. Yet girls are also powerful co-creators of the culture that shapes them, often cleverly subverting it to their own purposes. From Pocahantas to punk rockers, girls have been an integral, if overlooked and undervalued, part of American culture.