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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Odem, Mary E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1995]
Series:Gender & American culture.
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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.