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Title:

The girls' history and culture reader : the twentieth century / edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell and Leslie Paris.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

x, 334 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Girls--United States--History--20th century.
Girls--United States--Social conditions--20th century.
United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
United States--Civilization--20th century.

Other Authors:

Forman-Brunell, Miriam, 1955-
Paris, Leslie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"Something Happens to Girls": Menarche and the Emergence of the Modern American Hygienic Imperative / Joan Jacobs Brumberg -- "Putting on Style" / Kathy Peiss -- Single Mothers, Delinquent Daughters, and the Juvenile Court in Early 20th Century Los Angeles / Mary Odem -- The Adventures of Peanut and Bo: Summer Camps and Early-Twentieth-Century American Girlhood / Leslie Paris -- First Steps: The Second Generation, 1920s / Judy Yung -- "Oh the Bliss": Fashion and Teenage Girls / Kelly Schrum -- "Star Struck": Acculturation, Adolescence, and Mexican American Women, 1920-1950 / Vicki L. Ruiz -- Radical Notions: Nancy Drew and Her Readers, 1930-1949 / Ilana Nash -- The Oedipal Age: Postwar Psychoanalysis Reinterprets the Adolescent Girl / Rachel Devlin -- Imagined Bobby-Soxer Babysitters and the Uses of Girls' Work Culture / Miriam Forman-Brunell -- Why the Shirelles Mattered / Susan J. Douglas -- "Double Forces Has Got the Beat": Reclaiming Girls' Music in the Sport of Double-Dutch / Kyra D. Gaunt -- Riot Grrrl: It's Not Just Music, It's Not Just Punk / Mary Celeste Kearney

ISBN:

0252077687 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252077685 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252035801 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252035807 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)601331554

LCCN:

2010024099

Locations:

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