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.