Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Provides scholars, instructors, and students with the most influential essays that have defined the field of American girls’ history and culture. A relatively new and energetic field of inquiry, girl-centered research is critical for a fuller understanding of women and gender, a deeper consideration of childhood and adolescence, and a greater acknowledgment of the significance of generation as a historical force in American culture and society. – Back Cover.
Subjects:
- 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.
Requested by deVries, J