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Sexual Reckonings : Southern Girls in a Troubling Age / Susan K. Cahn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674024526
  • 9780674029149
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.7083520975 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ798 .C24 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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