Search Results - "coming of age"

Jewish girls coming of age in America, 1860-1920 by Klapper, Melissa R.

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Confederate daughters coming of age during the Civil War / by Ott, Victoria E., 1971-

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Youth and empire : trans-colonial childhoods in British and French Asia / by Pomfret, David M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : childhood and the reordering of empire -- Tropical childhoods : health, hygiene and nature -- Cultural contagions : children in the colonial home -- Magic islands : children on display in colonialisms' cultures -- Trouble in fairyland : cultures of childhood in interwar Asia -- Intimate heights : children, nature and colonial urban planning -- Sick traffic : 'child slavery' and imperial networks -- Class reactions : education and colonial 'comings of age' -- Raising Eurasia : childhood, youth and the mixed race question.…”
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Rewriting Womanhood Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903 / by LaGreca, Nancy, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions -- Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín de Toscano's La hija del bandido -- Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence -- New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca sol -- Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century -- Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman.…”
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Rewriting Womanhood : Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903 / by LaGreca, Nancy, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions -- Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín de Toscano's La hija del bandido -- Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence -- New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca sol -- Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century -- Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman.…”
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