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Becoming a ‘Villa Girl’: Youth Culture and the Student Experience at a Single-Sex Private School in Montreal, 1916-1980
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Becoming a ‘Villa Girl’: Youth Culture and the Student Experience at a Single-Sex Private School in Montreal, 1916-1980
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| Abstract |
A microhistorical analysis of the youth culture that thrived at
Villa Maria, an all-girls private school in Montreal, between 1916 and 1980. Founded in 1854 by the Congregation of Notre-Dame, a
Catholic order of nuns dedicated to the education of young women, Villa Maria taught the children of elite and middle-class English-speaking and French-speaking Catholics. While the private
school is acknowledged as a socializing force that influenced students’ development, the author demonstrates that teenage girls during the period under review actively produced meaningful adolescent experiences within an institutional setting. Far from assuming positions of passivity, she argues, students at Villa Maria played an important role in shaping and transforming their school. Her study illustrates the ways in which students borrowed from the normative messages of their superiors, from popular culture, and even from broader social changes occurring within Quebec society during the Quiet Revolution to produce a youth culture that reflected their age-based needs and desires and that often challenged institutional values.
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Master's thesis
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Concordia University
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Montreal
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2014
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iv-140p.
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en
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Moore, Lisa. “Becoming a ‘Villa Girl’: Youth Culture and the Student Experience at a Single-Sex Private School in Montreal, 1916-1980.” Master’s thesis, Concordia University, 2014. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/979658/1/Moore_MA_S2015.pdf.
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