Female adolescent sexuality in the United States, 1850-1965 / Ann Kordas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kordas, Ann Marie, author.

Series:

Children and youth in popular culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls--Sexual behavior--United States--History.

Teenage girls.

Teenage girls--Sexual behavior.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]

Summary:

"This book studies the development of expressions of female adolescent sexuality in the United States from 1850 to 1965. It suggests that during this time, adolescent girls went from being perceived as innocent, asexual beings to beings that were considered primarily sexual in nature"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: songs of innocence, songs of experience

"Sugar, molasses, and all things sweet": female adolescent romantic and sexual culture in nineteenth-century America

Movie palaces and chop suey places: the transformation of female adolescent sexuality in turn of the century America

When Angelina bobbed her hair: female adolescent sexuality in the 1920s

"God, a good job, and Deanna Durbin": female adolescent sexuality during the Great Depression

"He's cute and he doesn't smell": female adolescent romance and sexuality in World War II and the postwar period.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kordas, Ann Marie, author. Female adolescent sexuality in the United States, 1850-1965

ISBN:

9781498570176

1498570178

OCLC:

1081395253