Title: Nightingale
Description: At seventeen, June Hardie is everything a young woman in 1951 shouldn't be--independent, rebellious, a dreamer. June longs to travel, to attend college and to write the dark science fiction stories that consume her waking hours. But her parents only care about making June a better young woman. Her mother grooms her to be a perfect little homemaker while her father pushes her to marry his business partner's domineering son. When June resists, her whole world is shattered--suburbia isn't the only prison for different women ... --Amazon.com.
Subjects: Self-esteem in adolescence, Teenage girls, Control (Psychology), Self-esteem in women, Fiction, Gender inequality, Sex role, Sexism, Mental institutions, Children's fiction