Delinquents and Debutantes : : Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures /

Delinquents and Debutantes : : Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures / / ed. by Sherrie A. Inness.

The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Devlin, Rachel,
Formanek-Brunell, Miriam,
Gardner, Julia D.,
Hubler, Angela E.,
Inness, Sherrie A.,
Justice-Malloy, Rhona,
Kearney, Mary Celeste,
McComb, Mary C.,
Ruiz, Vicki L.,
Scanlon, Jennifer,
Schrum, Kelly,
Tedesco, Laureen,
de Jesus, Melinda L.,
HerausgeberIn:
Inness, Sherrie A.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1998]
©1998
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Law, Discipline, and Socialization
  • 1. Making a Girl into a Scout
  • 2. Rate Your Date
  • 3. Truculent and Tractable
  • 4. Female Juvenile Delinquency and the Problem of Sexual Authority in America, 1945-1965
  • Part II. The Girl Consumer
  • 5. Little Girls Bound
  • 6. "Teena Means Business"
  • 7. "Anti-Barbies"
  • 8. Boys-R-Us
  • Part III. Re-imagining Girlhood
  • 9. The Flapper and the Chaperone
  • 10. Fictions of Assimilation
  • 11. "No Place for a Girl Dick"
  • 12. Can Anne Shirley Help "Revive Ophelia"?
  • 13. Producing Girls
  • Contributors
  • Index

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