Delinquent Daughters Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920

Name: Delinquent Daughters Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920
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ISBN: 9780807845288

ISBN-10: 0807845280

ISBN-13: 9780807845288

Edition: 2nd 1995

Authors: Mary E. Odem

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Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Mary Odem looks at these moral reform movements from a national perspective, but she also undertakes a detailed analysis of court records to explore the local enforcement of regulatory legislation in Alameda and Los Angeles Counties in California. From these legal proceedings emerge overlapping and often contradictory views of middle-class female reformers, court and law enforcement officials, working-class teenage girls, and working-class parents. Odem traces two distinct stages of moral reform. The first began in…

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List price: $37.50
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 12/11/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



'White Slaves' and 'Vicious Men' The Age-Of-Consent Campaign



Teenage Girls, Sexuality, and Working-Class Parents



Statutory Rape Prosecutions in California



The 'Delinquent Girl' and Progressive Reform



Maternal Justice in the Juvenile Court



This Terrible Freedom Generational Conflicts in Working-Class Families


Conclusion


Appendix: A Note on Court Records


Notes


Bibliography


Index