'The Time of Storms': managing bourgeois girls' puberty in France, 1800-1870

This article examines the medical literature published in France in the period 1800–1870 on the subject of puberty and menstruation to argue that, in conjunction with the extension of school life for bourgeois girls, the period saw the emergence of a distinctive conception of feminine adolescence th...

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Main Author: De Bellaigue, C
Format: Journal article
Published: Taylor and Francis 2017