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Delinquents and debutantes : twentieth-century American girls' cultures

Title
Delinquents and debutantes : twentieth-century American girls' cultures / edited by Sherrie A. Inness.
Publication
New York : New York University Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors
Inness, Sherrie A.
Description
x, 322 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Alternative Title
Delinquents & debutantes
Subject
  • Girls > United States > History > 20th century
  • Girls > United States > Social conditions
  • Girls in popular culture > United States > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Making a Girl into a Scout: Americanizing Scouting for Girls / Laureen Tedesco. -- Rate Your Date: Young Women and the Commodification of Depression Era Courtship / Mary C. McComb . -- Truculent and Tractable: The Gendering of Babysitting in Postwar America / Miriam Formanek-Brunell. -- Female Juvenile Delinquency and the Problem of Sexual Authority in America, 1945-1965 / Rachel Devlin. -- Little Girls Bound: Costume and Coming of Age in the Sears Catalog 1906-1927 / Rhona Justice-Malloy. --"Teena Means Business": Teenage Girls' Culture and Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1950 / Kelly Schrum. --"Anti-Barbies": The American Girls Collection and Political Ideologies / Sherrie A. Inness. -- Boys-R-Us: Board Games and the Socialization of Young Adolescent Girls / Jennifer Scanlon. -- The Flapper and the Chaperone: Cultural Constructions of Identity and Heterosexual Politics among Adolescent Mexican American Women, 1920-1950 / Vicki L. Ruiz. -- Fictions of Assimilation: Nancy Drew, Cultural Imperialism, and the Filipina/American Experience / Melinda L. de Jesus. -- "No Place for a Girl Dick": Mabel Maney and the Queering of Girls' detective fiction / Julia D. Gardner. -- Can Anne Shirley Help "Revive Ophelia"? Listening to Girl Readers / Angela E. Hubler. -- Producing Girls: Rethinking the Study of Female Youth Culture / Mary Celeste Kearney.
Call Number
JFE 98-11303
ISBN
  • 0814737641 (clothbound : acid-free paper)
  • 081473765X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
98009047
OCLC
38738860
Title
Delinquents and debutantes : twentieth-century American girls' cultures / edited by Sherrie A. Inness.
Imprint
New York : New York University Press, c1998.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Inness, Sherrie A.
Cover Title
Delinquents & debutantes
Research Call Number
JFE 98-11303
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