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Book SynopsisA pioneering, field-defining collection of essential texts exploring girlhood in the twentieth century
Trade Review"An exceptionally valuable anthology that proves that girls' studies is one of the most vital new areas in women's studies"--Elizabeth Pleck, author of
Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present"Some of the finest scholarship in the field. . . . Highly recommended."--
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ix Introduction
1 1. "Something Happens to Girls": Menarche and the Emergence of the Modern American Hygienic Imperative
15Joan Jacobs Brumberg 2. "Putting on Style"
43Kathy Peiss 3. Single Mothers, Delinquent Daughters, and the Juvenile Court in Early 20th Century Los Angeles
64Mary Odem 4. The Adventures of Peanut and Bo: Summer Camps and Early-Twentieth-Century American Girlhood
84Leslie Paris 5. First Steps: The Second Generation, 1920s
109Judy Yung 6. "Oh the Bliss": Fashion and Teenage Girls
135Kelly Schrum 7. "Star Struck": Acculturation, Adolescence, and Mexican American Women, 1920-1950
160Vicki L. Ruiz 8. Radical Notions: Nancy Drew and Her Readers, 1930-1949
182Ilana Nash 9. The Oedipal Age: Postwar Psychoanalysis Reinterprets the Adolescent Girl
217Rachel Devlin 10. Imagined Bobby-Soxer Babysitters and the Uses of Girls' Work Culture
242Miriam Forman-Brunell 11. Why the Shirelles Mattered
266Susan J. Douglas 12. "Double Forces Has Got the Beat": Reclaiming Girls' Music in the Sport of Double-Dutch
279Kyra D. Gaunt 13. Riot Grrrl: It's Not Just Music, It's Not Just Punk
300Mary Celeste Kearney Contributors
317 Index
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