Ordinary Lessons

Girlhoods of the 1950s

316 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Counterpoints
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9780820436692
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.1999
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Band herausgegeben von: Susan Douglas Franzosa