Sexual Reckonings : Southern Girls in a Troubling Age.
Title:
Sexual Reckonings : Southern Girls in a Troubling Age.
Author:
Cahn, Susan K.
ISBN:
9780674029149
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (384 pages)
Contents:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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