JENNIFER HELGREN is an assistant professor of history at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.COLLEEN A. VASCONCELLOS is an assistant professor at University of West Georgia.

"This volume presents fresh scholarship on the history of girls' cultures and will become an oft-cited, first important collection that helps define the burgeoning field of the history of children and youth." - Jay Mechling (professor of American studies, University of California, Davis) "Provides the field of girl-centered research with new insights, the most important being that the notion of girlhood is not uniform and fixed, but diverse and dynamic."- Helma Van Leirop (Tilburg University/Leiden University, IRSCL online review)

• Foreword / Miriam Forman-BrunellAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Jennifer Helgren / Colleen A. VasconcellosToward Political Agency for Girls: Mapping the Discourses of Girlhood Globally / Jackie Kirk / Claudia Mitchell / Jacqueline Reid-WalshPart I Girls' Cultures and IdentitiesAmerican Jewish Girls and the Politics of Identity, 1860-1920 / Melissa R. KlapperGrowing Up in Colonial Algeria: The Case of Assia Djebar / Christa JonesImmigrant Girls in Multicultural Amsterdam: Juggling Ambivalent Cultural Messages / Marion Den Uyl / Lenie BrouwerFeminist Girls, Lesbian Comrades: Performances of Critical Girlhood in Taiwan Pop Music / Fran MartinPart II The Politics of GirlhoodGirlhood Memories and the Politics of Justice in Post-Rosas Argentina: The Restitution Suit of Olalla Alvarez / Jesse Hingson"A Case of Peculiar and Unusual Interest": The Egg Inspectors Union, the AFL, and the British Ministry of Food Confront "Negro Girl" Egg Candlers / Jan Voogd"Life Is a Succession of Disappointments": A Soviet Girl Contends with the Stalinist Dictatorship / E. Thomas EwingFragilities and Failures, Promises and Patriotism: Elements of Second World War English and American Girlhood, 1939-1945 / Lisa L. OssianHoly Girl Power Locally and Globally: The Marian Visions of Garabandal, Spain / Jessamy HarveyRebels, Robots, and All-American Girls: The Ideological Use of Images of Girl Gymnasts during the Cold War / Ann KordasPart III The Education of GirlsPalestinian Girls and the British Missionary Enterprise, 1847-1948 / Nancy L. Stockdale"The Right Kind of Ambition": Discourses of Femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895-1910 / S. E. DuffStolen Girlhood: Australia's Assimilation Policies and Aboriginal Girls / Christine CheaterFathers, Daughters, and Institutions: Coming of Age in Mombasa's Colonial Schools / Corrie DeckerMothers of Warriors: Girls in a Youth Debate of Interwar Iraq / Peter Wien"Homemaker' Can Include the World": Female Citizenship and Internationalism in the Postwar Camp Fire Girls / Jennifer HelgrenPart IV Girls to Women: Work, Marriage, and SexualityFrom Chattel to "Breeding Wenches": Abolitionism, Girlhood, and Jamaican Slavery / Colleen A. VasconcellosGirls, Labor, and Sex in Precolonial Egypt, 1850-1882 / Liat KozmaDefiant Daughters and the Emancipation of Minors in Nineteenth-Century Mexico / Kathryn A. SloanThe Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood: From "Sisters" to "Sinners" in One Generation / Patricia Sloane-WhiteContributorsIndex

JENNIFER HELGREN is an assistant professor of history at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.COLLEEN A. VASCONCELLOS is an assistant professor at University of West Georgia.

"This volume presents fresh scholarship on the history of girls' cultures and will become an oft-cited, first important collection that helps define the burgeoning field of the history of children and youth." - Jay Mechling (professor of American studies, University of California, Davis) "Provides the field of girl-centered research with new insights, the most important being that the notion of girlhood is not uniform and fixed, but diverse and dynamic."- Helma Van Leirop (Tilburg University/Leiden University, IRSCL online review)

• Foreword / Miriam Forman-BrunellAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Jennifer Helgren / Colleen A. VasconcellosToward Political Agency for Girls: Mapping the Discourses of Girlhood Globally / Jackie Kirk / Claudia Mitchell / Jacqueline Reid-WalshPart I Girls' Cultures and IdentitiesAmerican Jewish Girls and the Politics of Identity, 1860-1920 / Melissa R. KlapperGrowing Up in Colonial Algeria: The Case of Assia Djebar / Christa JonesImmigrant Girls in Multicultural Amsterdam: Juggling Ambivalent Cultural Messages / Marion Den Uyl / Lenie BrouwerFeminist Girls, Lesbian Comrades: Performances of Critical Girlhood in Taiwan Pop Music / Fran MartinPart II The Politics of GirlhoodGirlhood Memories and the Politics of Justice in Post-Rosas Argentina: The Restitution Suit of Olalla Alvarez / Jesse Hingson"A Case of Peculiar and Unusual Interest": The Egg Inspectors Union, the AFL, and the British Ministry of Food Confront "Negro Girl" Egg Candlers / Jan Voogd"Life Is a Succession of Disappointments": A Soviet Girl Contends with the Stalinist Dictatorship / E. Thomas EwingFragilities and Failures, Promises and Patriotism: Elements of Second World War English and American Girlhood, 1939-1945 / Lisa L. OssianHoly Girl Power Locally and Globally: The Marian Visions of Garabandal, Spain / Jessamy HarveyRebels, Robots, and All-American Girls: The Ideological Use of Images of Girl Gymnasts during the Cold War / Ann KordasPart III The Education of GirlsPalestinian Girls and the British Missionary Enterprise, 1847-1948 / Nancy L. Stockdale"The Right Kind of Ambition": Discourses of Femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895-1910 / S. E. DuffStolen Girlhood: Australia's Assimilation Policies and Aboriginal Girls / Christine CheaterFathers, Daughters, and Institutions: Coming of Age in Mombasa's Colonial Schools / Corrie DeckerMothers of Warriors: Girls in a Youth Debate of Interwar Iraq / Peter Wien"Homemaker' Can Include the World": Female Citizenship and Internationalism in the Postwar Camp Fire Girls / Jennifer HelgrenPart IV Girls to Women: Work, Marriage, and SexualityFrom Chattel to "Breeding Wenches": Abolitionism, Girlhood, and Jamaican Slavery / Colleen A. VasconcellosGirls, Labor, and Sex in Precolonial Egypt, 1850-1882 / Liat KozmaDefiant Daughters and the Emancipation of Minors in Nineteenth-Century Mexico / Kathryn A. SloanThe Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood: From "Sisters" to "Sinners" in One Generation / Patricia Sloane-WhiteContributorsIndex

JENNIFER HELGREN is an assistant professor of history at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.COLLEEN A. VASCONCELLOS is an assistant professor at University of West Georgia.

"This volume presents fresh scholarship on the history of girls' cultures and will become an oft-cited, first important collection that helps define the burgeoning field of the history of children and youth." - Jay Mechling (professor of American studies, University of California, Davis) "Provides the field of girl-centered research with new insights, the most important being that the notion of girlhood is not uniform and fixed, but diverse and dynamic."- Helma Van Leirop (Tilburg University/Leiden University, IRSCL online review)

• Foreword / Miriam Forman-BrunellAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Jennifer Helgren / Colleen A. VasconcellosToward Political Agency for Girls: Mapping the Discourses of Girlhood Globally / Jackie Kirk / Claudia Mitchell / Jacqueline Reid-WalshPart I Girls' Cultures and IdentitiesAmerican Jewish Girls and the Politics of Identity, 1860-1920 / Melissa R. KlapperGrowing Up in Colonial Algeria: The Case of Assia Djebar / Christa JonesImmigrant Girls in Multicultural Amsterdam: Juggling Ambivalent Cultural Messages / Marion Den Uyl / Lenie BrouwerFeminist Girls, Lesbian Comrades: Performances of Critical Girlhood in Taiwan Pop Music / Fran MartinPart II The Politics of GirlhoodGirlhood Memories and the Politics of Justice in Post-Rosas Argentina: The Restitution Suit of Olalla Alvarez / Jesse Hingson"A Case of Peculiar and Unusual Interest": The Egg Inspectors Union, the AFL, and the British Ministry of Food Confront "Negro Girl" Egg Candlers / Jan Voogd"Life Is a Succession of Disappointments": A Soviet Girl Contends with the Stalinist Dictatorship / E. Thomas EwingFragilities and Failures, Promises and Patriotism: Elements of Second World War English and American Girlhood, 1939-1945 / Lisa L. OssianHoly Girl Power Locally and Globally: The Marian Visions of Garabandal, Spain / Jessamy HarveyRebels, Robots, and All-American Girls: The Ideological Use of Images of Girl Gymnasts during the Cold War / Ann KordasPart III The Education of GirlsPalestinian Girls and the British Missionary Enterprise, 1847-1948 / Nancy L. Stockdale"The Right Kind of Ambition": Discourses of Femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895-1910 / S. E. DuffStolen Girlhood: Australia's Assimilation Policies and Aboriginal Girls / Christine CheaterFathers, Daughters, and Institutions: Coming of Age in Mombasa's Colonial Schools / Corrie DeckerMothers of Warriors: Girls in a Youth Debate of Interwar Iraq / Peter Wien"Homemaker' Can Include the World": Female Citizenship and Internationalism in the Postwar Camp Fire Girls / Jennifer HelgrenPart IV Girls to Women: Work, Marriage, and SexualityFrom Chattel to "Breeding Wenches": Abolitionism, Girlhood, and Jamaican Slavery / Colleen A. VasconcellosGirls, Labor, and Sex in Precolonial Egypt, 1850-1882 / Liat KozmaDefiant Daughters and the Emancipation of Minors in Nineteenth-Century Mexico / Kathryn A. SloanThe Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood: From "Sisters" to "Sinners" in One Generation / Patricia Sloane-WhiteContributorsIndex