Sexual reckonings [electronic resource] : Southern girls in a troubling age / Susan K. Cahn.
2007
HQ798 .C24 2007eb
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Sexual reckonings [electronic resource] : Southern girls in a troubling age / Susan K. Cahn.
Author
Cahn, Susan K.
ISBN
9780674024526 (alk. paper)
0674024524 (alk. paper)
0674024524 (alk. paper)
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
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English
Description
375 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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HQ798 .C24 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.70835/209750904
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-358) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Scarlett redux
"Holding excitement in their hands" : the Southern "girl problem"
Spirited youth or fiends incarnate?
"Just as much a menace" : race and sex delinquency
"A head full of diamonds" : fact, fiction, and African American girls' sexuality
"Living in hopes" : an economy of desire
Sex, science, and eugenic sterilization
The World War II pickup girl and wartime passions
School days : reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic, and romance
Would Jesus dance? The dangerous rhythms of rock 'n' roll
The sexual paradox of high school desegregation
Conclusion: Sex, memory, and the segregated past.
"Holding excitement in their hands" : the Southern "girl problem"
Spirited youth or fiends incarnate?
"Just as much a menace" : race and sex delinquency
"A head full of diamonds" : fact, fiction, and African American girls' sexuality
"Living in hopes" : an economy of desire
Sex, science, and eugenic sterilization
The World War II pickup girl and wartime passions
School days : reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic, and romance
Would Jesus dance? The dangerous rhythms of rock 'n' roll
The sexual paradox of high school desegregation
Conclusion: Sex, memory, and the segregated past.