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Melissa R. Klapper

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Melissa R. Klapper is Professor of History and Director of Women's & Gender Studies at Rowan University. ...more

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Melissa R. Klapper As a historian who has written extensively about the history of childhood and youth in the past, I was interested in exploring something that played a…moreAs a historian who has written extensively about the history of childhood and youth in the past, I was interested in exploring something that played a big part in my own childhood: ballet class, which I took for fourteen years. I also enjoy writing about topics no one has ever investigated before, and although there is a huge literature on the history of ballet as an art form, no one had ever written a social history of the centrality of ballet class to certain kinds of American childhoods over the course of the 20th century.(less)

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	Ballet Class: An American History 4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in America, 1880–1925 (American Childhoods Series) 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girlhood: A Global History (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies) by Jennifer Helgren, Colleen A. Vasconcellos (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Miriam Forman-Brunell (Foreword) 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Antonia: Novel-Ties Study Guide by Melissa R. Klapper (Goodreads Author), Joyce Friedland (Editor), Rikki Kessler (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars