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A time of one's own? Female recollections of youth in Denmark at the turn of the twentieth century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2005

BIRGITTE SØLAND
BIRGITTE SØLAND
Affiliation:
Department of History, Ohio State University.
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Abstract

The decades around the turn of the twentieth century mark a critical transitional moment in the history of European girlhood. These decades witnessed a significant expansion in educational opportunities for girls and young women, while a broad range of new jobs provided previously unknown options in the labour market. Based on 1,100 unpublished memoirswritten by Danish women, this article explores how these changes affected the lives and experiences of three successive generations of women who came of age from the 1880s to the 1930s.

Type
Research Article
Information
Continuity and Change , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , December 2004 , pp. 387 - 408
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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