Delinquents and Debutantes Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures / edited by Sherrie A. Inness.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Inness, Sherrie A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Girls--Social conditions.

Girls in popular culture.

Girls.

Flickor--Förenta staterna--1900-talet.

Girls in popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Girls--United States--Social conditions.

Girls--United States--History--20th century.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experiences of what it means to be a girl, and later a woman, in our society. The essays address such topics as board games and the socialization of adolescent girls, dolls and political ideologies, Nancy Drew and the Filipina American experience, the queering of girls' detective fiction, and female juvenile delinquency to demonstrate how cultural discourses shape both the young and teenage girl in America. Although girls' culture has until now received comparatively little attention from scholars, this work confirms that understanding the culture of girls is essential to understanding how gender works in our society. Making a significant contribution to a long-neglected area of social and cultural inquiry, Delinquents and Debutantes will be of central interest to those in women's studies, American studies, history, literature, and cultural studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Making a Girl into a Scout

2. Rate Your Date

3. Truculent and Tractable

4. Female Juvenile Delinquency and the Problem of Sexual Authority in America, 1945-1965

5. Little Girls Bound

6. "Teena Means Business"

7. "Anti-Barbies"

8. Boys-R-Us

9. The Flapper and the Chaperone

10. Fictions of Assimilation

11. "No Place for a Girl Dick"

12. Can Anne Shirley Help "Revive Ophelia"?

13. Producing Girls

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8147-3778-1

OCLC:

906951789