Girls’ history—you probably didn’t have a chance to take that class in high school. But increasingly colleges and universities are offering courses about girls, taking seriously the importance of their lives, their joys, and their struggles. As part of girls’ history, this website brings together stories by women who experienced growing up in different places and times in the past century.
Each of the women featured on this site was interviewed by a group of students enrolled in a women’s studies course at Minnesota State University Mankato. The groups sought answers to their questions about girlhood, adolescence, and growing up. Captured on digital media equipment, edited electronically, and organized into unique pages with biographies, slide shows, and video clips, their stories offer fresh perspectives on girls’ and women’s lives.
Their stories is the gateway to the pages for each “girl” featured on the website. Other pages, accessible from the menu on the left, provide a glimpse behind the scenes of the work that has brought the site to life. Numerous people—including over 200 students, nearly 40 women who provided oral histories, 3 web developers, a professor of women’s studies, and a variety supporting administrators and staff on campus—have been essential to the development of Coming of Age in the Twentieth Century.
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