Sexual Reckonings : Southern Girls in a Troubling Age /
Cahn, Susan K.
Sexual Reckonings : Southern Girls in a Troubling Age / Susan K. Cahn. - 1 online resource
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Scarlett Redux -- 1 "Holding Excitement in Their Hands" -- 2 Spirited Youth or Fiends Incarnate? -- 3 "Just as Much a Menace": Race and Sex Delinquency -- 4 "A Head Full of Diamonds" -- 5 "Living in Hopes": An Economy of Desire -- 6 Sex, Science, and Eugenic Sterilization -- 7 The World War II Pickup Girl and Wartime Passions -- 8 School Days Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic, and Romance -- 9 Would Jesus Dance? The Dangerous Rhythms of Rock 'n' Roll -- 10 The Sexual Paradox of High School Desegregation -- Conclusion: Sex, Memory, and the Segregated Past -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
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Sexual Reckonings is the fascinating tale of adolescent girls coming of age in the South during the most explosive decades for the region. Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Susan Cahn reveals how both the life of the South and the meaning of adolescence underwent enormous political, economic, and social shifts.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674024526 9780674029149
10.4159/9780674029149 doi
African American teenage girls--Sexual behavior--Southern States.
African American teenage girls--Social conditions.--Southern States
African Americans--Segregation--Southern States.
Dating (Social customs)--Southern States.
Interracial dating--Southern States.
School integration--Southern States.
Teenage girls, White--Sexual behavior--Southern States.
Teenage girls, White--Social conditions.--Southern States
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV).
HQ798 / .C24 2012
306.7083520975
Sexual Reckonings : Southern Girls in a Troubling Age / Susan K. Cahn. - 1 online resource
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Scarlett Redux -- 1 "Holding Excitement in Their Hands" -- 2 Spirited Youth or Fiends Incarnate? -- 3 "Just as Much a Menace": Race and Sex Delinquency -- 4 "A Head Full of Diamonds" -- 5 "Living in Hopes": An Economy of Desire -- 6 Sex, Science, and Eugenic Sterilization -- 7 The World War II Pickup Girl and Wartime Passions -- 8 School Days Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic, and Romance -- 9 Would Jesus Dance? The Dangerous Rhythms of Rock 'n' Roll -- 10 The Sexual Paradox of High School Desegregation -- Conclusion: Sex, Memory, and the Segregated Past -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Sexual Reckonings is the fascinating tale of adolescent girls coming of age in the South during the most explosive decades for the region. Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Susan Cahn reveals how both the life of the South and the meaning of adolescence underwent enormous political, economic, and social shifts.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674024526 9780674029149
10.4159/9780674029149 doi
African American teenage girls--Sexual behavior--Southern States.
African American teenage girls--Social conditions.--Southern States
African Americans--Segregation--Southern States.
Dating (Social customs)--Southern States.
Interracial dating--Southern States.
School integration--Southern States.
Teenage girls, White--Sexual behavior--Southern States.
Teenage girls, White--Social conditions.--Southern States
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV).
HQ798 / .C24 2012
306.7083520975