This book is centered on the history of the girl from the medieval period through to the early twenty-first century. Authored by an international team of scholars, the volume explores the transition from adolescent girlhood to young womanhood, the formation and education of girls in the home and in school, and paid work undertaken by girls in different parts of the world and at different times. It highlights the value of a comparative approach to the history of the girl, as the contributors point to shared attitudes to girlhood and the similarity of the experiences of girls in workplaces across the world. Contributions to the volume also emphasise the central role of girls in the global economy, from their participation in the textile industry in the eighteenth century, through to the migration of girls to urban centres in twentieth-century Africa and China.
Chapter 1. Introduction; Mary ODowd and June Purvis
Chapter 2. Girls at Work in the Middle Ages; Sophie Brouquet
Chapter 3. From Young Women to Female Adolescents: Dutch Advice Literature During the Long Nineteenth Century; Marja van Tilburg
Chapter 4. Adolescent Girlhood in Eighteenth Century Ireland; Mary ODowd
Chapter 5. Young Woman, Textile Labour and Marriage in Europe and China around 1800; Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner
Chapter 6. The Education of European and Chinese Girls at Home in the Nineteenth Century; Emily Bruce and Fang Qin
Chapter 7. [T]he Children Bobbed Like Corks on the Tide of Adult Life: The Political Education of the Pankhurst Girls in Late Victorian England; June Purvis
Chapter 8. Girls as Members of an Educated Elite: The Bulgarian Case (1850-1950); Georgeta Nazarska
Chapter 9. Did the Bengali Woman have a Girlhood? A Study of Colonialism, Education and the EvolS*
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