Sexual Reckonings

Southern Girls in a Troubling Age

Susan K. Cahn

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ISBN 9780674063938

Publication Date: 03/05/2012

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384 pages

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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

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