Introduction
Part I. Working Girls' Labor and Lives in the Pre-industrial and Early Industrial Eras
1. Deborah Simonton: Bringing up Girls: Work in Pre-Industrial Europe
2. Mary Jo Maynes: In Search of Arachne's Daughters: European Girls, Economic Development, and the Textile Trade, 1750-1880
3. Andreas Gestrich: After Dark: Girls' Leisure, Work and Sexuality in Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth-century Rural Southwest Germany
4. Clare Crowston: An Industrious Revolution in Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Paris: New Vocational Training for Adolescent Girls and the Creation of Female Labor Markets
5. Carol E. Morgan: Work for Girls? The Small Metal Industries in England, 1840-1915.
II. Spaces of Socialization of Middle- and Upper-class Girls in the 18th and 19th Centuries
6. Irene Hardach-Pinke: Managing Girls' Sexuality Among the German Upper Classes
7. Rebecca Rogers: Porous Walls and Prying Eyes: Control, Discipline, and Morality in Boarding Schools for Girls in mid-19th century France.
8. Céline Grasser: Good Girls vs. Blooming Maidens: The Building of Female Middle-Class Identities in the Garden, England and France, 1820-1870.
III. Redefining Girlhood: Competing Discourses on Female Adolescence, 1880 - 1950
9. Kathleen Alaimo: The Authority of Experts: The Crisis of Female Adolescence in France and England, 1880-1920.
10. Mary Lynn Stewart: Sex Education and Sexual Initiation of Bourgeois French Girls, 1880-1930.
11. Christina Benninghaus: In Their Own Words: Girls' Representations of Growing Up in Germany in the 1920s.
12. Pamela Cox: Girls in Trouble. Defining Female Delinquency, Britain 1900-1950.
IV. Changing Patterns of Work and Leisure, 1880-1960
13. Anna Davin: Young Women and Clerical Work in England, 1880-1910.
14. Elizabeth Jones: Girls in Court: Mägde versus their Employers in Saxony, 1880-1914.
15. Tammy Proctor: 'Something for the girls': Organized Leisure in Europe, 1890-1930.
16. Birgitte Søland: Employment and Enjoyment: Female Coming of Age Experiences in Denmark, 1880-1930.
17. Claire Langhamer: Leisure, Pleasure and Courtship: Young Women in England, 1920-1960.
18. Karin M. Schmidlechner: The Emergence of the Modern Teenage Girl in Austria after World War II.
