Sexual Reckonings Southern Girls in a Troubling Age

Name: Sexual Reckonings Southern Girls in a Troubling Age
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ISBN: 9780674024526

ISBN-10: 0674024524

ISBN-13: 9780674024526

Edition: 2007

Authors: Susan K. Cahn

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Sexual Reckonings is the fascinating tale of adolescent girls coming of age in the South during the most explosive decades for the region. Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Susan Cahn reveals how both the life of the South and the meaning of adolescence underwent enormous political, economic, and social shifts. Those years witnessed the birth of a modern awareness of adolescence and female sexuality that clashed mightily with the white supremacist and patriarchal legacies of the old South. As youth staked its claim, the bodies and beliefs of southern girls became the battlefield for a transformed South, which was, like them, experiencing growing pains. Cahn reveals how young…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/30/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 316
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Susan K. Cahn is Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.



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


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index