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Ordinary Lessons: Girlhoods of the 1950s

Ordinary Lessons: Girlhoods of the 1950s

Paperback

Series: Counterpoints, Book 43

General EducationWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0820436690
ISBN13: 9780820436692
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Mar 1 1999
Pages: 315
Language: English
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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Women's Studies