Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915
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Anglican
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Aunt Judy's Magazine
Aunt Judy’s Magazine
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British print culture
Brown Owl
case study methodology
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Children
Contagious Diseases Acts
Domesticity
Education
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Famine
feminine
feminine ideals history
Fenwick Miller
Florence Fenwick Miller
Girl Readers
Girl's Realm
girls
girls' magazines cultural construction
Girton Girl
Healthy Girl
ideal
Ideal Husband
Independent Woman
John Strange Winter
Literature
Marriage
modern
Modern Girl
monthly
Monthly Packet
nineteenth-century social change
Ormond Street Children's Hospital
packet
Period Miscellany
Periodicals
Print Culture
readers
Real Girl
realm
Religious Girl
Single Sexual Standard
traditional
Traditional Feminine Ideal
Vice Versa
Victorian gender roles
Women's Higher Education
Women's Suffrage Campaign
Year's Words
Young Men
Youth
youth periodicals analysis
Product details
- ISBN 9781409422662
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Focusing on six popular British girls' periodicals, Kristine Moruzi explores the debate about the shifting nature of Victorian girlhood between 1850 and 1915. During an era of significant political, social, and economic change, girls' periodicals demonstrate the difficulties of fashioning a coherent, consistent model of girlhood. The mixed-genre format of these magazines, Moruzi suggests, allowed inconsistencies and tensions between competing feminine ideals to exist within the same publication. Adopting a case study approach, Moruzi shows that the Monthly Packet, the Girl of the Period Miscellany, the Girl's Own Paper, Atalanta, the Young Woman, and the Girl's Realm each attempted to define and refine a unique type of girl, particularly the religious girl, the 'Girl of the Period,' the healthy girl, the educated girl, the marrying girl, and the modern girl. These periodicals reflected the challenges of embracing the changing conditions of girls' lives while also attempting to maintain traditional feminine ideals of purity and morality. By analyzing the competing discourses within girls' periodicals, Moruzi's book demonstrates how they were able to frame feminine behaviour in ways that both reinforced and redefined the changing role of girls in nineteenth-century society while also allowing girl readers the opportunity to respond to these definitions.
Kristine Moruzi is a Grant Notley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.
