Female Adolescent Sexuality in the United States, 18501965

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.

List of contents

Introduction: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience

Chapter 1: "Sugar, Molasses...And All Things Sweet": Female Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

Chapter 2: Movie Palaces and Chop Suey Places: The Transformation of Female Adolescent Sexuality in Turn of the Century America

Chapter 3: When Angelina Bobbed Her Hair: Female Adolescent Sexuality in the 1920s

Chapter 4: "God, a Good Job, and Deanna Durbin": Female Adolescent Sexuality During the Great Depression

Chapter 5: "He's Cute and He Doesn't Smell": Female Adolescent Romance and Sexuality in World War II and the Postwar Period

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Ann Kordas, Kordas Ann
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2021
• EAN: 9781498570190
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7019-0
• No. of pages: 390
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Age groups: children, Gender studies: women and girls