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Author Cahn, Susan K., author

Title Sexual reckonings : Southern girls in a troubling age / Susan K. Cahn
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (375 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-358) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Teenage girls, White -- Southern States -- Social conditions
Teenage girls, White -- Sexual behavior -- Southern States
African American teenage girls -- Southern States -- Social conditions
African American teenage girls -- Sexual behavior -- Southern States
African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States
Dating (Social customs) -- Southern States
Interracial dating -- Southern States
School integration -- Southern States
PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
African American teenage girls -- Sexual behavior
African American teenage girls -- Social conditions
African Americans -- Segregation
Dating (Social customs)
Interracial dating
Manners and customs
Race relations
School integration
Soziale Situation
Geschlechterverhältnis
Weibliche Jugend
Ethnische Beziehungen
SUBJECT Southern States -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125663
Southern States -- Race relations
Subject Southern States
USA -- Südstaaten
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674029149
0674029143