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.
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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.
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Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published:
1/1/1999 12: 03: 00 AM
Language:
English
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17771010938
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Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published:
1/1/1999 12: 03: 00 AM
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17771003918
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Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published:
1999
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17678121552
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Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 315 p. Counterpoints, 43. Audience: General/trade. Some bumping and edgewear. Spots of soiling on first page. Crease in cover. Writing inside cover. First few pages are a little wavy like minor water damage.
