Relative intimacy : fathers, adolescent daughters, and postwar American culture /

Rachel Devlin argues that postwar culture fostered a father-daughter relationship characterized by new forms of psychological intimacy. The pervasiveness of depictions of father-adolescent daughter eroticism on all levels of culture raises questions about the extent of girls' independence and t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Devlin, Rachel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005.
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1945-2000.
Teenage girls > Family relationships.
Fathers and daughters.
Fathers and daughters in literature.
Electra complex.
Adolescentes > Relations familiales.
Pères et filles.
Complexe d'Électre.
Pères et filles dans la littérature.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Adolescence.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Teenagers.
Familienbeziehung
Vater
Tochter
Pères et filles > États-Unis > 1945- ...
Pères et filles > Dans la littérature.
USA.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Oedipal age: postwar psychoanalysis reinterprets the adolescent girl
  • Delinquent girls and the crisis of paternal authority in the postwar United States
  • Adolescent authorities: teenage girls, consumerism, and the cultural transformation of fatherhood
  • Coming-of-age: a paternal rite of passage, 1948-1965
  • Affection, identification, skepticism: situating men in relationship to adolescent daughters.

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