| Abstrakt: |
This article analyzes an amateur newspaper, The Violet (1882-1887), which provided a supportive mentoring and networking community for girls and young women in nineteenth century amateur journalism. I argue that this paper embodies Eva Feder Kittay's concept of the doulia, which in contrast to the work of more popular care theorist Nel Noddings, conceives of care relationships not as dyadic, but as circular and reciprocal. Because gender rather than age was the most important vector of difference for girls in amateur journalism, analyzing girls' amateur journalism shows how care can provide another heuristic for understanding children's agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
