Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women
Carol Dyhouse
Language: English
Pages: 320
ISBN: 1783601604
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Social historian Carol Dyhouse studies this phenomenon in Girl Trouble, an expansive account of its realities throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Dyhouse looks closely at interviews, news pieces, and articles to show the clear perpetuation of this trend and the very real effects that it has had—and continues to have—on the girlhood experience. She brilliantly demonstrates the value of feminism and other liberating cultural shifts and their necessity in expanding girls’ aspirations and opportunities in spite of the controversy that has accompanied these freedoms.
Girl Trouble is the dynamic story of the challenges and opportunities faced by young women growing up in the swirl of the twentieth century and the vocal critics who continue to scrutinize their progress.
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women’s passion for, 51–2 Lee, Christopher, 137 legal status of women, 198 Lennon, John, 159 Lennox, Annie, 238 lesbianism, 78, 80–3, 101, 195 Leslie, Murray, 78 ‘Let Girls Be Girls’ campaign, 224 Levy, Ariel, Female Chauvinist Pigs, 213–14 Lewinsky, Monica, 149 Lewis, Jerry Lee, 152 Liddington, Jill, Rebel Girls, 61 Limehouse, London, 79–80 Linden, Paul, 139 Litchfield, Michael, and Susan Kentish, Babies for Burning, 190–1 Lively, Penelope, 167 living away from home, 161 London
display. Others followed the Arabella Kenealy line and argued that competitive sport damaged femininity. Reading University’s Vice Chancellor, W. M. Childs, had fretted himself silly about whether rowing and sculling were safe sports for women undergraduates. His successor Franklin Sibly inherited his concern. Women students had to produce medical certificates and written permission from parents before they were allowed to go on the river, and racing against male crews was strictly forbidden.61
spanking acquired sexual overtones. Sex and disappointment seethed beneath the surface of family life.89 Lorna’s grandfather lusted after her friends. Her uncle Bill made leery passes at his niece, seeing her as ‘the poor man’s Brigitte Bardot’. Access to books and a sound education at Whitchurch High School nurtured Lorna’s imagination and provided her with a rich intellectual and imaginary life. At the same time, she and her best friend Gail were lured by the sounds of a new teenage culture.
the association: the next thing that happens is that the parents appear before the court saying that their daughter is now pregnant and joining in a prayer that their prospective son-in-law should not be sent to prison.90 Another area of social life where there were problems relating to the existing law on adulthood was higher education. The universities had long accepted something of the responsibility of standing in loco parentis in relation to undergraduates. In practice, university
doctors should prescribe the pill to sexually active girls under the age of sixteen remained difficult. Most doctors felt that withholding contraceptive advice, or insisting on involving parents against the daughter’s wishes, would do more harm than good. Victoria Gillick, a Roman Catholic mother of ten children, thought differently. When in 1980 a DHSS circular gave guidance on the subject which confirmed that the prescription of contraceptives to under-sixteen-year-olds without parental consent
