Sexual Reckonings : Southern Girls in a Troubling Age / Susan Cahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cahn, Susan, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Scarlett Redux

1 “Holding Excitement in Their Hands”

2 Spirited Youth or Fiends Incarnate

3 “Just as Much a Menace”

4 “A Head Full of Diamonds”

5 “Living in Hopes”

6 Sex, Science, and Eugenic Sterilization

7 The World War II Pickup Girl and Wartime Passions

8 School Days

9 Would Jesus Dance?

10 The Sexual Paradox of High School Desegregation

Conclusion: Sex, Memory, and the Segregated Past

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)

ISBN:

0-674-26248-4

OCLC:

1257323679