Bad Girls : Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties /

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This title looks at mid-century American sex and culture. It traces the origins of the 'sexual revolution' of the 1960s. The book argues that sexual liberation was much more than a reaction to 1950s repression because it largely involved the mainstreaming of a counterculture already on the...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Littauer, Amanda H. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Women > Sexual behavior.
Sex customs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Femmes > Sexualite > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Vie sexuelle > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Gender Identity > history.
Sexual Behavior > history
Women > Sexual behavior > United States > History > 20th century.
Sex customs > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: what are we waiting for?
  • Victory girls : sex, mobility, and adventure on the home front
  • B-girls : soliciting drinks and negotiating sex in mid-century bars
  • "Tearing off the veil" : responses to Kinsey's female report
  • Going steady : permissiveness, petting, and premarital sex
  • "Someone to love" : teen girls, same-sex desire, and contested meanings of immaturity in the 1950s
  • Conclusion: feminist sexual futures
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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