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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu13021013682021-08-03T06:02:13Z Inventing American girlhood: gendered pedagogies in women's memories, 1950-1999 Marshall, Elizabeth <p>In "Inventing Gendered Childhoods" I examine memoirs written by women inthe 1990s who came of age in postwar America in order to trace how girlhooddeveloped as a separate category from childhood. Although girlhood is often posited inscholarship and everyday life as the time-bounded period of adolescence, I argue that itis better understood for the purposes of Education research as a cultural space andidentity that girls are compelled to occupy, and in which they are trained throughvarious means. I demonstrate that the meaning of childhood as a gendered experienceemerges in a range of cultural locations and institutions, including but not limited toschools. Through memoirs such as Susanna Kaysen's <i>Girl, Interrupted</i>, DorothyAllison's <i>Two or Three Things I Know For Sure</i>, and bell hooks' <i>Bone Black</i>, women make visible a range of surreptitious cultural lessons and in the process re-read and counter the repressive girl-rearing practices that framed their own coming-of-age. In particular, women memoirists offer alternative pedagogies that blur the line between adulthood and childhood, tutor us about the insufficiency of the time-bound and gendered identities that the school imposes, and finally disperse the work of "pedagogy" throughout the culture. This project contributes to the debates around girls and education by offering an alternative archive for feminist reflections on girls and schools in the form of women's memoir.</p> 2001 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1302101368 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1302101368 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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