Delinquents and Debutantes : Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures /
Delinquents and Debutantes : Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures /
ed. by Sherrie A. Inness.
- 1 online resource
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Law, Discipline, and Socialization -- 1. Making a Girl into a Scout -- 2. Rate Your Date -- 3. Truculent and Tractable -- 4. Female Juvenile Delinquency and the Problem of Sexual Authority in America, 1945-1965 -- Part II. The Girl Consumer -- 5. Little Girls Bound -- 6. "Teena Means Business" -- 7. "Anti-Barbies" -- 8. Boys-R-Us -- Part III. Re-imagining Girlhood -- 9. The Flapper and the Chaperone -- 10. Fictions of Assimilation -- 11. "No Place for a Girl Dick" -- 12. Can Anne Shirley Help "Revive Ophelia"? -- 13. Producing Girls -- Contributors -- Index
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The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experiences of what it means to be a girl, and later a woman, in our society. The essays address such topics as board games and the socialization of adolescent girls, dolls and political ideologies, Nancy Drew and the Filipina American experience, the queering of girls' detective fiction, and female juvenile delinquency to demonstrate how cultural discourses shape both the young and teenage girl in America. Although girls' culture has until now received comparatively little attention from scholars, this work confirms that understanding the culture of girls is essential to understanding how gender works in our society. Making a significant contribution to a long-neglected area of social and cultural inquiry, Delinquents and Debutantes will be of central interest to those in women's studies, American studies, history, literature, and cultural studies.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780814737644 9780814737781
10.18574/nyu/9780814737781.001.0001 doi
Girls in popular culture--History--United States--20th century.
Girls--History--United States--20th century.
Girls--Social conditions.--United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
HQ777 / .D39 1998eb
305.23
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Law, Discipline, and Socialization -- 1. Making a Girl into a Scout -- 2. Rate Your Date -- 3. Truculent and Tractable -- 4. Female Juvenile Delinquency and the Problem of Sexual Authority in America, 1945-1965 -- Part II. The Girl Consumer -- 5. Little Girls Bound -- 6. "Teena Means Business" -- 7. "Anti-Barbies" -- 8. Boys-R-Us -- Part III. Re-imagining Girlhood -- 9. The Flapper and the Chaperone -- 10. Fictions of Assimilation -- 11. "No Place for a Girl Dick" -- 12. Can Anne Shirley Help "Revive Ophelia"? -- 13. Producing Girls -- Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experiences of what it means to be a girl, and later a woman, in our society. The essays address such topics as board games and the socialization of adolescent girls, dolls and political ideologies, Nancy Drew and the Filipina American experience, the queering of girls' detective fiction, and female juvenile delinquency to demonstrate how cultural discourses shape both the young and teenage girl in America. Although girls' culture has until now received comparatively little attention from scholars, this work confirms that understanding the culture of girls is essential to understanding how gender works in our society. Making a significant contribution to a long-neglected area of social and cultural inquiry, Delinquents and Debutantes will be of central interest to those in women's studies, American studies, history, literature, and cultural studies.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780814737644 9780814737781
10.18574/nyu/9780814737781.001.0001 doi
Girls in popular culture--History--United States--20th century.
Girls--History--United States--20th century.
Girls--Social conditions.--United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
HQ777 / .D39 1998eb
305.23