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.
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