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Title:

Delinquents and debutantes : twentieth-century American girls' cultures / edited by Sherrie A. Inness.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

x, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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

Other Authors:

Inness, Sherrie A.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Making a Girl into a Scout: Americanizing Scouting for Girls / Laureen Tedesco. -- Rate Your Date: Young Women and the Commodification of Depression Era Courtship / Mary C. McComb . -- Truculent and Tractable: The Gendering of Babysitting in Postwar America / Miriam Formanek-Brunell. -- Female Juvenile Delinquency and the Problem of Sexual Authority in America, 1945-1965 / Rachel Devlin. -- Little Girls Bound: Costume and Coming of Age in the Sears Catalog 1906-1927 / Rhona Justice-Malloy. --"Teena Means Business": Teenage Girls' Culture and Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1950 / Kelly Schrum. --"Anti-Barbies": The American Girls Collection and Political Ideologies / Sherrie A. Inness. -- Boys-R-Us: Board Games and the Socialization of Young Adolescent Girls / Jennifer Scanlon. -- The Flapper and the Chaperone: Cultural Constructions of Identity and Heterosexual Politics among Adolescent Mexican American Women, 1920-1950 / Vicki L. Ruiz. -- Fictions of Assimilation: Nancy Drew, Cultural Imperialism, and the Filipina/American Experience / Melinda L. de Jesus. -- "No Place for a Girl Dick": Mabel Maney and the Queering of Girls' detective fiction / Julia D. Gardner. -- Can Anne Shirley Help "Revive Ophelia"? Listening to Girl Readers / Angela E. Hubler. -- Producing Girls: Rethinking the Study of Female Youth Culture / Mary Celeste Kearney.

ISBN:

9780814737644 (clothbound : acid-free paper)
0814737641 (clothbound : acid-free paper)
9780814737651 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
081473765X (pbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)38738860

LCCN:

98009047

Locations:

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

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)