Sexual Reckonings : Southern Girls in a Troubling Age / Susan K. Cahn.
2012
HQ798 .C24 2012
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Title
Sexual Reckonings : Southern Girls in a Troubling Age / Susan K. Cahn.
Author
Cahn, Susan K., author.
ISBN
9780674029149
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2007
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674029149 doi
Call Number
HQ798 .C24 2012
Alternate Call Number
NW 2708
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.7083520975
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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Table of 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
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