Delinquent daughters : protecting and policing adolescent female sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 /
Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Mary Odem looks at these moral reform movements from a national perspective, but she also undertakes a detailed analysis of...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Main Author: | |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
Published: |
Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[1995]
|
Series: | Gender & American culture.
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- "White slaves" and "vicious men": the age-of-consent campaign
- Teenage girls, sexuality, and working-class parents
- Statutory rape prosecutions in California
- The "delinquent girl" and progressive reform
- Maternal justice in the juvenile court
- "This terrible freedom": generational conflicts in working-class families.