Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Girls at Work in the Middle Ages

Chapter 3 From ‘Young Women’ to ‘Female Adolescents’: Dutch Advice Literature during the Long Nineteenth Century

Chapter 4 Adolescent Girlhood in Eighteenth-Century Ireland

Chapter 5 Young Women, Textile Labour, and Marriage in Europe and China around 1800

Chapter 6 The Education of European and Chinese Girls at Home in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 7 ‘[T]he Children Bobbed Like Corks on the Tide of Adult Life’: The Political Education of the Pankhurst Girls in Late Victorian England

Chapter 8 Girls as Members of an Educated Elite: The Bulgarian Case, c. 1850–1950

Chapter 9 Did the Bengali Woman Have a Girlhood? A Study of Colonialism, Education, and the Evolution of the Girl Child in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Chapter 10 The ‘Social Processing Chamber’ of Gender: Australian Second-Wave Feminist Perspectives on Girls’ Socialisation

Chapter 12 The ‘Girl-Hawking War’ in Colonial Lagos

Chapter 13 Biopolitics of Dai Girls: Work, Marriage, and a Desirable Lifestyle