| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Twentieth-Century Girls: Coming of Age in the Twentieth Century, Stories from Minnesota and Beyond, http://www.mnsu.edu/mngirls/. Created and maintained by Minnesota State University, Mankato. Reviewed Nov. 25–Dec. 4, 2006.
Twentieth-Century Girls features the recollections of twenty-six women born and raised in Minnesota between 1909 and 1983. In an effort to "inform," "inspire," and encourage viewers to transcend stereotypes (for example, "sluts" and "tomboys") about female adolescents and to think "critically about girlhood and what it means," undergraduates enrolled in "Coming of Age: Gender and Culture," a course taught by Susan Freeman at Minnesota State University, interviewed their mothers, grandmothers, teachers, sisters, and friends in 2004 and 2005.	1
The interviews included in this easy-to- navigate Web site accompany thumbnail biographies and family photographs created for each of the twenty-six interviewees. Their life "stories" are made accessible through two stacks of thematic links to both videoed and transcribed interviews. Though topics vary considerably and include some extraneous subjects, most focus on education, dating, family relationships, and rituals. Other pertinent subjects include menstruation (aka "the curse"; "coming of age"), pranks, fears, music, friends, and other aspects of girls' and women's lived experiences.	. . .

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