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Author:

Nash, Ilana.

Title:

American sweethearts : teenage girls in twentieth-century popular culture / Ilana Nash.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

viii, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Girls in literature.
Young adult fiction, American--History and criticism.
Teenage girls--Books and reading--United States.
Drew, Nancy (Fictitious character)
Teenage girls in popular culture.
Teenage girls in motion pictures.
Teenage girls in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and index.

Contents:

Radical notions : Nancy Drew and her readers, 1930-1949 -- Pretty baby : Nancy Drew goes to Hollywood -- Delightfully dangerous girls in the 1940s -- The postwar fall and rise of teen girls.

ISBN:

9780253218025 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253218020 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253346599 (alk. paper)
0253346592 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)58985765

LCCN:

2005009297

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)