Ordinary Lessons: Girlhoods of the 1950s

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Overview

The childhood memoirs contained in Ordinary Lessons are intended to complicate the conventional portrait of white middle-class girlhood in the American 1950s. As they look back to their own remembered lives in families, schools, and communities, the authors undermine the popular image of unproblematic "happy days." Their stories uncover the commonalties as well as differences in the cultural landscape they inhabited and explore the constraints and possibilities of the ordinary lessons girls learned in the 1950s.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780820436692
  • Publisher: Lang, Peter Publishing, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 3/28/1999
  • Series: Counterpoints of Education Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 315
  • Product dimensions: 60.00 (w) x 92.50 (h) x 7.50 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Reframing the Landscape of the 1950s 1
1 Foremothers 17
2 Apronstring Academic 47
3 My Geography 65
4 Reflections on a Family Portrait 79
5 When the Roll is Called Up Yonder, I'll Be There 105
6 In Our Places 133
7 On Sunday I Was a Girl 159
8 Foxen Road 191
9 Crossing the Borders: Remembrances of a Class Act 221
10 The Grammar of Memory 243
11 Failing to Learn to See Correctly: Crossed Eyes on Gender and Education in the Fifties 271
Bibliography 307
Contributors 313
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