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Sexual reckonings : Southern girls in a troubling age
- Title
- Sexual reckonings : Southern girls in a troubling age / Susan K. Cahn.
- Author
- Cahn, Susan K.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
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- Description
- 375 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Interracial dating > Southern States
- African Americans > Segregation > Southern States
- Southern States > Race relations
- African American teenage girls > Southern States > Social conditions
- African American teenage girls > Sexual behavior > Southern States
- Teenage girls, White > Sexual behavior > Southern States
- Southern States > Social life and customs
- Teenage girls, White > Southern States > Social conditions
- Dating (Social customs) > Southern States
- School integration > Southern States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-358) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Scarlett redux -- "Holding excitement in their hands" : the Southern "girl problem" -- Spirited youth or fiends incarnate? -- "Just as much a menace" : race and sex delinquency -- "A head full of diamonds" : fact, fiction, and African American girls' sexuality -- "Living in hopes" : an economy of desire -- Sex, science, and eugenic sterilization -- The World War II pickup girl and wartime passions -- School days : reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic, and romance -- Would Jesus dance? The dangerous rhythms of rock 'n' roll -- The sexual paradox of high school desegregation -- Conclusion: Sex, memory, and the segregated past.
- Call Number
- Sc E 07-686
- ISBN
- 9780674024526 (alk. paper)
- 0674024524 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006102565
- OCLC
- 77520634
- Author
- Cahn, Susan K.
- Title
- Sexual reckonings : Southern girls in a troubling age / Susan K. Cahn.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-358) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- Sc E 07-686