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Girls to the Rescue

Young Heroines in American Series Fiction of World War I

By: Emily Hamilton-Honey,Susan Ingalls Lewis

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Girls to the Rescue

Young Heroines in American Series Fiction of World War I

By: Emily Hamilton-Honey,Susan Ingalls Lewis

During World War I, as young men journeyed overseas to battle, American women maintained the home front by knitting, fundraising, and conserving supplies. These became daily chores for young girls, but many longed to be part of a larger, more glorious war effort--and some were. A new genre of young adult books entered the market, written specifically with the young girls of the war period in mind and demonstrating the wartime activities of women and girls all over the world. Through fiction, girls could catch spies, cross battlefields, man machine guns, and blow up bridges. These adventurous heroines were contemporary feminist role models, creating avenues of leadership for women and inspiring individualism and self-discovery. The work presented here analyzes the powerful messages in such literature, how it created awareness and grappled with the engagement of real girls in the United States and Allied war effort, and how it reflects their contemporaries' awareness of girls' importance.

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1476640416

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9781476640419

Turning the Pages of American Girlhood

The Evolution of Girls' Series Fiction, 1865-1930

By: Emily Hamilton-Honey

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Turning the Pages of American Girlhood

The Evolution of Girls' Series Fiction, 1865-1930

By: Emily Hamilton-Honey

Alternating chapters of historical background and literary analysis, this study argues that postbellum series books inspired young women by illustrating the ways in which girls could participate in social change, whether through church societies, benevolent organizations, educational institutions or political groups. By 1900, however, the socialization of series heroines had shifted to the consumer marketplace, where girls could develop personality and taste through their purchases. Both models had benefits: Religious faith and political activism gave young women moral power within their communities; consuming gave them opportunities to indulge individual desires and often to socialize in public without adult oversight. This work adds to the existing scholarship on girls' culture not only by examining the beginnings of series fiction for girls and the models of womanhood it presented but also by tracing the shifting social ideologies of girlhood throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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1476601518

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Girls to the Rescue

Young Heroines in American Series Fiction of World War I

By: Emily Hamilton-Honey,Susan Ingalls Lewis

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Young Heroines in American Series Fiction of World War I

By: Emily Hamilton-Honey,Susan Ingalls Lewis

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