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Subject(s)

• Teenage girls—Sexual behavior—United States—History [Browse]

Series

Children and youth in popular culture [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book studies the development of expressions of female adolescent sexuality in the United States from 1850 to 1965. It suggests that during this time, adolescent girls went from being perceived as innocent, asexual beings to beings that were considered primarily sexual in nature"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-374) and index.

Contents

• Introduction: songs of innocence, songs of experience
• "Sugar, molasses, and all things sweet": female adolescent romantic and sexual culture in nineteenth-century America
• Movie palaces and chop suey places: the transformation of female adolescent sexuality in turn of the century America
• When Angelina bobbed her hair: female adolescent sexuality in the 1920s
• "God, a good job, and Deanna Durbin": female adolescent sexuality during the Great Depression
• "He's cute and he doesn't smell": female adolescent romance and sexuality in World War II and the postwar period.

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ISBN

• 9781498570176 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 1498570178 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2019001747

OCLC

1081395253

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