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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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Book/Text | Use in library | HQ799.A8 J64 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- 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
- 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