Introduction / Leslie G. Roman and Linda K. Christian-Smith -- Femininity as discourse / Dorothy E. Smith -- Intimate outscapes : problem-page letters and the remaking of the 1950s German family / Erica Carter -- Romancing the girl : adolescent romance novels and the construction of femininity / Linda K. Christian-Smith -- Illicit pleasures : feminist spectators and Personal best / Elizabeth Ellsworth -- The curriculum of the body : lessons from a Catholic high school / Nancy Lesko -- Intimacy, labor, and class : ideologies of feminine sexuality in the punk slam dance / Leslie G. Roman -- Marxist theories of education and the challenge of a cultural politics of non-synchrony / Cameron McCarthy