Sexual reckonings : Southern girls in a troubling age /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cahn, Susan K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Temas:
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.
Adolescentes blanches > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Adolescentes blanches > Sexualité > États-Unis (Sud)
Adolescentes noires américaines > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Adolescentes noires américaines > Sexualité > États-Unis (Sud)
Noirs américains > Ségrégation > États-Unis (Sud)
Amours > États-Unis (Sud)
Amours interraciaux > États-Unis (Sud)
Déségrégation en éducation > États-Unis (Sud)
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
Southern States > Social life and customs.
Southern States > Race relations.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales.
Southern States
USA > Südstaaten
Weiße.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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