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Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present

Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present

Greer, Jane
Greer, Jane
Forman-Brunell, Miriam

Hardcover

Series: Contributions to the Study of Childhood and Youth

General ReferenceGeneral EducationWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1576076660
ISBN13: 9781576076668
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: May 23 2003
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.95
Height: 1.08 Width: 7.12 Depth: 10.26
Language: English

An exploration of the fascinating and controversial history of girls' education in America from the colonial era to the computer age.

Girls and Literacy in America offers a tour of opportunities, obstacles, and achievements in girls' education from the limited possibilities of colonial days to the wide-open potential of the Internet generation.

Six essays, written by historians and focused on particular historical periods, examine the extensive range of girls' literacies in both educational and extracurricular settings. Girls from various ethnic and racial backgrounds, social classes, religions, and geographic areas of the nation are included. A host of primary documents, including such items as an 18th century hornbook to excerpts from girls' conversations in Internet chat rooms allow readers an opportunity to evaluate for themselves some of the materials mentioned in the volume's opening essays. And finally, an extensive bibliography will be invaluable to students expected to conduct more extensive primary research.

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