Delinquent daughters : protecting and policing adolescent female sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 / Mary E. Odem.
Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Mary Odem looks at these moral reform movements from a national perspective, but she also undertakes a detailed analysis of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[1995]
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| Series: | Gender & American culture.
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| Summary: | Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Mary Odem looks at these moral reform movements from a national perspective, but she also undertakes a detailed analysis of court records to explore the local enforcement of regulatory legislation in Alameda and Los Angeles Counties in California. From these legal proceedings emerge overlapping and often contradictory views of middle-class female reformers, court and law enforcement officials, working-class teenage girls, and the girls' parents. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-253) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585025770 9780585025773 080786367X 9780807863671 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 12, 2016) |