Sexual reckonings [electronic resource] : Southern girls in a troubling age / Susan K. Cahn.
Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.Description: 375 p. : illSubject(s):- 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
- 306.70835/209750904 22
- HQ798 .C24 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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