Into Silence and Servitude: How American Girls Became Nuns, 1945-1965 9780773551732, 9780773551411, 9780773551725, 0773551735

Into Silence and Servitude: How American Girls Became Nuns, 1945-1965 9780773551725

A critical examination of the recruitment and formation of American Catholic nuns during the final decades of convent ex

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How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood 9780300157284

Based on an extraordinary array of diaries and letters, this engaging book explores the shifting experiences of adolesce

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Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well 9781978822313

Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well examines a community of individuals whose aging trajectorie

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Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game 9781478022701

Lisa Uperesa charts the cultural, historical, and social dynamics that have made American football so central to Samoan

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Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity 9780822384571

Explores the links between the emergence of lesbian and proto-lesbian identities at the turn of the century and the disc

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Visual Habits: Nuns, Feminism, And American Postwar Popular Culture 9781442683112

From The Nun's Story to The Flying Nun to The Singing Nun, nuns were a major presence in the mainstream media. Sull

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How Girls Achieve 9780674240131

This bold and necessary book points out a simple and overlooked truth: most schools never had girls in mind to begin wit

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How Paris Became Paris 9781620401132

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Migrating into Financial Markets: How Remittances Became a Development Tool 9780520960930

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publis

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Hollywood and the Culture Elite : How the Movies Became American 9780231508513, 9780231133777, 0231133766, 2004061786

Peter Decherney is assistant professor of cinema studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania.

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