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Sexual Reckonings : Southern Girls in a Troubling Age.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (384 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674029149
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sexual ReckoningsDDC classification:
  • 306.70835/209750904
LOC classification:
  • HQ798
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Scarlett Redux -- 1. "Holding Excitement in Their Hands"The Southern "Girl Problem" -- 2. Spirited Youth or Fiends Incarnate? -- 3. "Just as Much a Menace": Race and Sex Delinquency -- 4. "A Head Full of Diamonds"Fact, Fiction, and African American Girls' Sexuality -- 5. "Living in Hopes": An Economy of Desire -- 6. Sex, Science, and Eugenic Sterilization -- 7. The World War II Pickup Girl and Wartime Passions -- 8. School DaysReading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic, and Romance -- 9. Would Jesus Dance? The Dangerous Rhythms of Rock 'n' Roll -- 10. The Sexual Paradox of High School Desegregation -- Conclusion: Sex, Memory, and the Segregated Past -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Cahn reveals how both the life of the South and the meaning of adolescence underwent enormous political, economic, and social shifts, with the modern awareness of female sexuality clashing mightily against the white supremacist and patriarchal legacies of the old South.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Scarlett Redux -- 1. "Holding Excitement in Their Hands"The Southern "Girl Problem" -- 2. Spirited Youth or Fiends Incarnate? -- 3. "Just as Much a Menace": Race and Sex Delinquency -- 4. "A Head Full of Diamonds"Fact, Fiction, and African American Girls' Sexuality -- 5. "Living in Hopes": An Economy of Desire -- 6. Sex, Science, and Eugenic Sterilization -- 7. The World War II Pickup Girl and Wartime Passions -- 8. School DaysReading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic, and Romance -- 9. Would Jesus Dance? The Dangerous Rhythms of Rock 'n' Roll -- 10. The Sexual Paradox of High School Desegregation -- Conclusion: Sex, Memory, and the Segregated Past -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Cahn reveals how both the life of the South and the meaning of adolescence underwent enormous political, economic, and social shifts, with the modern awareness of female sexuality clashing mightily against the white supremacist and patriarchal legacies of the old South.

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