Presents the results of a study on sexually abused girls based on in-depth interviews with 930 women from a variety of backgrounds.
Presents the results of a study on sexually abused girls based on in-depth interviews with 930 women from a variety of backgrounds.
Alternating chapters of historical background and literary analysis, this study argues that postbellum series books inspired young women by illustrating the ways in which girls could participate in social change. The book adds to the existing scholarship on girls' culture by tra…
"Alternating chapters of historical background and literary analysis, this study argues that postbellum series books inspired young women by illustrating the ways in which girls could participate in social change. The book adds to the existing scholarship on girls' culture by tr…
"How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women's bodies and how did it acknowledge women's reproductive functions? Detailing women's lives in Greco-Roman Egypt this monograph examines understudied aspects of women's lives such as their coming of age, social and religious t…
Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion
... A work of considerable scholarship, and one on which the author is to be congratulated.' - Minerva It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes i…
It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most importnat religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that women engaged in numerous other rites and cults, and that.
