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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Odem, Mary E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1995]
Colección:Gender & American culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.