Female Adolescent Sexuality in the United States, 1850-1965 (eBook)

Ann Kordas (Autor)

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2019
390 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7018-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book studies the development of expressions of female adolescent sexuality in the United States from 1850 to 1965. It suggests that during this time, adolescent girls went from being perceived as innocent, asexual beings to beings that were considered primarily sexual in nature.

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This book examines the history of female adolescent sexuality in the United States from the middle of the nineteenth century until the beginning of the 1960s. The book analyzes both adult perceptions of female adolescent sexuality and the experiences of female adolescents themselves. It examines what girls knew (or thought they knew) about sex at different points in time, girls' sexual experiences, girls ideas about love and romance, female adolescent beauty culture, and the influence of popular culture on female adolescent sexuality. It also examines the ways in which adults responded to female adolescent sexuality and the efforts of adults to either control or encourage girls interest in sexual topics, dating, girls' participation in beauty culture, and their education on sexual topics. The book describes a trajectory along which female adolescents went from being perceived as inherently innocent and essentially asexual to being regarded (and feared) as primarily sexual in nature.

Autor

Ann Kordas is professor in the Humanities Department at Johnson & Wales University.

Inhalt

Introduction: Songs of Innocence, Songs of ExperienceChapter 1: “Sugar, Molasses…And All Things Sweet”: Female Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Culture in Nineteenth-Century AmericaChapter 2: Movie Palaces and Chop Suey Places: The Transformation of Female Adolescent Sexuality in Turn of the Century AmericaChapter 3: When Angelina Bobbed Her Hair: Female Adolescent Sexuality in the 1920sChapter 4: “God, a Good Job, and Deanna Durbin”: Female Adolescent Sexuality During the Great DepressionChapter 5: “He’s Cute and He Doesn’t Smell”: Female Adolescent Romance and Sexuality in World War II and the Postwar Period

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: adolescents • adolescent sexuality • Cultural History • Female Adolescents • female adolescent sexuality • girlhood studies • Girls • girls’ culture • girls’ sexuality • Sex • Sexuality • Teenagers
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-7018-6 / 1498570186
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7018-3 / 9781498570183