Growing Up Female

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Growing Up Female is written by Barbara Anne White and published by Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0313250650 (ISBN 10) and 9780313250651 (ISBN 13).

In this first book to be written on female adolescence in American literature, White offers a necessary corrective both to the bias of current criticism, which emphasizes boys' growth to manhood, and to the neglect and misunderstanding of important works of fiction by women. Her balanced treatment includes both a general survey of the fiction of female adolescence and in-depth investigation of works of four representative writers--Edith Wharton, Ruth Suckow, Carson McCullers, and Jean Stafford.