Wiener-Anspach Fellow Laura Di Spurio recently published a book, Du côté des jeunes filles. Discours, (contre-)modèles et histoires de l’adolescence féminine, analysing the evolution of female adolescence in Belgium in the 20th century. First framed as a separate age group, adolescence later became a “cultural, social and biopsychological space”, “an explanatory principle ‘for all girls’ […], created by adults who were frightened by a female youth viewed as more precocious, assertive and free”.
For more information, as well as the book’s table of contents, please visit the website of the Éditions de l’Université libre de Bruxelles.
Laura Di Spurio, PhD in History (ULB), has been granted a Wiener-Anspach fellowship to carry out a research project entitled “‘Little girls are killed’ Transnational moral panic and the making of at-risk girls in the European Belle Epoque”, under the supervision of Prof. Siân Pooley (Faculty of History, University of Oxford).