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Delinquents and debutantes : twentieth-century American girls' cultures /

The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Inness, Sherrie A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [1998]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Making a Girl into a Scout: Americanizing Scouting for Girls / Laureen Tedesco.
  • Rate Your Date: Young Women and the Commodification of Depression Era Courtship / Mary C. McComb .
  • Truculent and Tractable: The Gendering of Babysitting in Postwar America / Miriam Formanek-Brunell.
  • Female Juvenile Delinquency and the Problem of Sexual Authority in America, 1945-1965 / Rachel Devlin.
  • Little Girls Bound: Costume and Coming of Age in the Sears Catalog 1906-1927 / Rhona Justice-Malloy.
  • "Teena Means Business": Teenage Girls' Culture and Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1950 / Kelly Schrum.
  • "Anti-Barbies": The American Girls Collection and Political Ideologies / Sherrie A. Inness.
  • Boys-R-Us: Board Games and the Socialization of Young Adolescent Girls / Jennifer Scanlon.
  • The Flapper and the Chaperone: Cultural Constructions of Identity and Heterosexual Politics among Adolescent Mexican American Women, 1920-1950 / Vicki L. Ruiz.
  • Fictions of Assimilation: Nancy Drew, Cultural Imperialism, and the Filipina/American Experience / Melinda L. de Jesus.
  • "No Place for a Girl Dick": Mabel Maney and the Queering of Girls' detective fiction / Julia D. Gardner.
  • Can Anne Shirley Help "Revive Ophelia"? Listening to Girl Readers / Angela E. Hubler.
  • Producing Girls: Rethinking the Study of Female Youth Culture / Mary Celeste Kearney.