"Politics for Girls": Representations of Political Girlhood in the Girl's Own Paper and the Girl's Realm
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Sunderland, Helen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7635-8127
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Political girlhood was an important, but previously overlooked, feature of the fin de siècle girls' periodical press. In the Girl's Own Paper and the Girl's Realm, the "political girl" existed alongside other incarnations of the "new girl." Together with adult-authored informative and fiction pieces, correspondence pages and "how-to" columns encouraged girl readers' active engagement with empire and parliamentary politics. Youth gave preadolescent girls freedom to express their political and imperial identities through play. Uncovering examples that appear to jar with the dominant tone of these journals, this essay nuances assumptions that girls' periodical literature and lived experiences were necessarily apolitical.
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47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
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Victorian Periodicals Review
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0049-6189
1712-526X
1712-526X
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52
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