Sexual Reckonings : : Southern Girls in a Troubling Age / / Susan K. Cahn.

Sexual Reckonings is the fascinating tale of adolescent girls coming of age in the South during the most explosive decades for the region. Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Susan Cahn reveals how both the life of the South and the meaning of adolescence underwent enormous political, economic...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2007
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Scarlett Redux
  • 1 "Holding Excitement in Their Hands"
  • 2 Spirited Youth or Fiends Incarnate?
  • 3 "Just as Much a Menace": Race and Sex Delinquency
  • 4 "A Head Full of Diamonds"
  • 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 Days Reading, '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