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The modern girl : girlhood and growing up

Title
The modern girl : girlhood and growing up / Lesley Johnson.
Author
Johnson, Lesley, 1949-
Publication
Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1993.

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Description
vi, 184 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
In the early 1960s, Betty Friedan made a plea for women to grow up, to become - in her terms - fully developed persons. In this book the author looks at the 1950s and early 60s in Australia as a period in which the girlhood and growing up as young women was being transformed in major ways.
Subject
  • Teenage girls > Australia
  • Feminism > Australia
  • Feminism
  • Social conditions
  • Teenage girls
  • Mädchen
  • Soziologie
  • Meisjes
  • Adolescentie
  • Ontwikkeling (psychologie)
  • Opvoeding
  • Sociale verandering
  • Australia > Social conditions
  • Australia
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-181) and index.
Contents
A feminist history of girlhood and growing up -- 1. Feminism and the 'awakening of women'. A pathology of women? Authentic selves. New identities -- 2. The importance of having: modernity, women and consumerism. Modernity. Women, mass culture and consumerism. Women and modernity -- 3. Growing up as a modern individual: on youth and modernity in the 1950s. Youth as symbol of modernity. Youth and the post-war era. Youth as a separate category of person -- 4. Growing up in modern Australia: the study of young people in Australia in the 1950s. Australia -- 'the lusty youth'. Investigating Australian youth. From cultural ideals to normalizing techniques. Alternative images of the self? -- 5. The modern school girl: debates about the education of young women. Modernizing the secondary school system. Schooling and the achievement of a sexed identity -- 6. Youth on the streets: the social regulation of young people as 'teenagers' and as 'youth'. The teenager. Troublesome youth. Organized youth.
ISBN
  • 0335099998
  • 9780335099993
  • 033509998X
  • 9780335099986
LCCN
92027016
OCLC
  • ocm26588290
  • 26588290
  • SCSB-1980854
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library