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Working-class girlhood in 1930s Bolton

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Are You Being Schooled in How to Be a Woman?

A lot of the girls are having a kind of apprenticeship in domestic tasks. Some essays from children who are a little younger than these girls, from the same elementary school. They certainly are being schooled in how to be a woman in that period. There's quite a sense,. isn't there, of the importance of extended families in this community, and not just ther mother, father inso blink. Aunties come up all over the place. Very few assosiars don't mention aunties at some points. And they have this family network, which is really important. So yes, that extended family, and particularly the female side of it, it comes across very strongly as being

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