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Sexual reckonings : Southern girls in a troubling age
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- Creator
- Susan K. Cahn
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007
- Physical Details
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- 375 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674024526, 0674024524, 9780674029149, 0674029143
- OCLC
- ocn654743938, ocm77520634, ocn979777073, ocn923111162
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-358) and index.
- Introduction: Scarlett redux -- "Holding excitement in their hands" : the Southern "girl problem" -- Spirited youth or fiends incarnate? -- "Just as much a menace" : race and sex delinquency -- "A head full of diamonds" : fact, fiction, and African American girls' sexuality -- "Living in hopes" : an economy of desire -- Sex, science, and eugenic sterilization -- The World War II pickup girl and wartime passions -- School days : reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic, and romance -- Would Jesus dance? The dangerous rhythms of rock 'n' roll -- The sexual paradox of high school desegregation -- Conclusion: Sex, memory, and the segregated past
Subjects
- Teenage girls, White -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
- Teenage girls, White -- Sexual behavior -- Southern States.
- African American teenage girls -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
- African American teenage girls -- Sexual behavior -- Southern States.
- African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States.
- Dating (Social customs) -- Southern States.
- Interracial dating -- Southern States.
- School integration -- Southern States.
- Southern States -- Social life and customs.
- Southern States -- Race relations.