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Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750-1960 - Maynes, Mary Jo (Editor), and Søland, Birgitte (Editor), and Benninghaus, Christina (Editor)
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Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills offers a comparative history of European girlhood from 1750 to 1960, with a focus on Britain, France, and Germany. It covers diverse issues in the lives of girls, from sexuality and leisure to social roles in the family and the economy. A corrective to historians' traditionally male orientation toward youth, the volume brings girls to the center of European history, emphasizing their importance in European economics and culture. It also identifies cultural and temporal differences within the ...

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Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750-1960 2004, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN

ISBN-13: 9780253217103

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