Sexual reckonings Southern girls in a troubling age /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cahn, Susan K.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Subjects:	Teenage girls, White > Southern States > Social conditions. Teenage girls, White > Sexual behavior > Southern States. African American teenage girls > Southern States > Social conditions. African American teenage girls > Sexual behavior > Southern States. African Americans > Segregation > Southern States. Dating (Social customs) > Southern States. Interracial dating > Southern States. School integration > Southern States. Southern States > Social life and customs. Southern States > Race relations. Electronic books.
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Table of 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.

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