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The Essential Daughter: Changing Expectations for Girls at Home, 1797 to the Present
The Essential Daughter Changing Expectations for Girls at Home 1797 to the Present
Author: Mary Collins
The portraits of 14 girls aged 6 to 14, when their ideas of duty and self remained in flux, are used as a starting point for discussion on how to bring daughters and their brothers back into the flow of American home life. The author explores how Americans might make girls feel essential on the home front without denying them the right of self-d...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780275978365
ISBN-10: 0275978362
Publication Date: 11/30/2002
Pages: 184
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Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
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