How Young Ladies Became Girls

How Young Ladies Became Girls

Author: Jane H. Hunter

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0300092636

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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.