Title Sexual reckonings : Southern girls in a troubling age / Susan K. Cahn.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

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Description	1 online resource (375 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-358) and index.
Contents	Introduction: Scarlett redux -- "Holding excitement in their hands" : the Southern "girl problem" -- Spirited youth or fiends incarnate? -- "Just as much a menace" : race and sex delinquency -- "A head full of diamonds" : fact, fiction, and African American girls' sexuality -- "Living in hopes" : an economy of desire -- Sex, science, and eugenic sterilization -- The World War II pickup girl and wartime passions -- School days : reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic, and romance -- Would Jesus dance? The dangerous rhythms of rock 'n' roll -- The sexual paradox of high school desegregation -- Conclusion: Sex, memory, and the segregated past.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Teenage girls, White -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
	Teenage girls, White -- Sexual behavior -- Southern States.
	African American teenage girls -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
	African American teenage girls -- Sexual behavior -- Southern States.
	African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States.
	Dating (Social customs) -- Southern States.
	Interracial dating -- Southern States.
	School integration -- Southern States.
	Southern States -- Social life and customs.
	Southern States -- Race relations.
	PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
	SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
	Soziale Situation.
	Geschlechterbeziehung.
	Weibliche Jugend.
	Rassenbeziehung.
	United States -- Südstaaten.
	Weiße.
	HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Cahn, Susan K. Sexual reckonings. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2006102565 (OCoLC)77520634
ISBN	9780674029149 (electronic bk.)
	0674029143 (electronic bk.)

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