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Regulating desire : from the virtuous maiden to the purity princess /

Covers five distinct time periods in which changing social conditions generated considerable public anxiety about youthful female sexuality and examines how successive generations of reformers sought to revise the law in an effort to manage unruly desires and restore a gendered social order.--Provid...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ehrlich, J. Shoshanna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1 Predatory Men and Virtuous Maidens: Saving Young Women from Ruinous Seduction
  • ch. 2 Protecting Her Most Prized Possession: The Campaign to Raise the Age of Sexual Consent
  • ch. 3 Responding to the "Girl Problem": The Emergence of the Female Sexual Delinquent
  • ch. 4 Our Daughters Are Having Babies: The Fashioning of a Public Response to the Teen Pregnancy "Epidemic"
  • ch. 5 Our Daughters Are Having Sex: The Conservative Pushback against Teen "Promiscuity."