ISBN-13: 9780820436692 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 315 str.
The childhood memoirs contained in "Ordinary Lessons" are intended to complicate the conventional portrait of white middle-class girlhood in the American 1950s. As they look back to their own remembered lives in families, schools, and communities, the authors undermine the popular image of unproblematic -happy days.- Their stories uncover the commonalties as well as differences in the cultural landscape they inhabited and explore the constraints and possibilities of the ordinary lessons girls learned in the 1950s."