Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-404).
Contents
Acknowledgments -- Introduction : From bluestockings to sex kittens -- ch. 1. The birth of the college girl -- ch. 2. New girl on campus -- ch. 3. The collegiate look -- ch. 4. In loco parentis and other campus rules -- ch. 5. Book smart or house wise? What to study -- ch. 6. Fit in mind and body -- ch. 7. Sex ed and husband hunting -- ch. 8. Graduation and after -- Epilogue: Since then -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Permissions/illustration credits.
Summary
From her first appearance in the mid-nineteenth century, when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest, the college girl has attracted criticism, advice, and regulation from her elders--not to mention some enduring images in popular culture. Is she a geek in glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This book brings together women's history and popular culture in a readable blend of information, insight and humor, peppered with photographs and other femoribilia from the turn of the twentieth century through the 1970s.--From publisher description.
