- Introduction: Scarlett Redux
- 1. “Holding Excitement in Their Hands”: The Southern “Girl Problem”
- 2. Spirited Youth or Fiends Incarnate?
- 3. “Just as Much a Menace”: Race and Sex Delinquency
- 4. “A Head Full of Diamonds”: Fact, Fiction, and African American Girls’ Sexuality
- 5. “Living in Hopes”: An Economy of Desire
- 6. Sex, Science, and Eugenic Sterilization
- 7. The World War II Pickup Girl and Wartime Passions
- 8. School Days: Reading, ’Riting, ’Rithmetic, and Romance
- 9. Would Jesus Dance? The Dangerous Rhythms of Rock ’n’ Roll
- 10. The Sexual Paradox of High School Desegregation
- Conclusion: Sex, Memory, and the Segregated Past
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


Sexual Reckonings
Southern Girls in a Troubling Age
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$31.00 • £26.95 • €28.95
ISBN 9780674063938
Publication Date: 03/05/2012