- 391 pages
- English
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Female Adolescent Sexuality in the United States, 1850–1965
About this book
This book examines the history of female adolescent sexuality in the United States from the middle of the nineteenth century until the beginning of the 1960s. The book analyzes both adult perceptions of female adolescent sexuality and the experiences of female adolescents themselves. It examines what girls knew (or thought they knew) about sex at different points in time, girls' sexual experiences, girls' ideas about love and romance, female adolescent beauty culture, and the influence of popular culture on female adolescent sexuality. It also examines the ways in which adults responded to female adolescent sexuality and the efforts of adults to either control or encourage girls' interest in sexual topics, dating, girls' participation in beauty culture, and their education on sexual topics. The book describes a trajectory along which female adolescents went from being perceived as inherently innocent and essentially asexual to being regarded (and feared) as primarily sexual in nature.
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Yes, you can access Female Adolescent Sexuality in the United States, 1850–1965 by Ann Kordas in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Women in History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
- Chapter One: “Sugar, Molasses . . . and All Things Sweet”: Female Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
- Chapter Two: Movie Palaces and Chop Suey Places: The Transformation of Female Adolescent Sexuality in Turn-of-the-Century America
- Chapter Three: When Angelina Bobbed Her Hair: Female Adolescent Sexuality in the 1920s
- Chapter Four: “God, a Good Job, and Deanna Durbin”: Female Adolescent Sexuality during the Great Depression
- Chapter Five: “He’s Cute and He Doesn’t Smell”: Female Adolescent Romance and Sexuality in World War II and the Postwar Period
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author