Bad girls : young women, sex, and rebellion before the sixties /
Littauer, Amanda H.,
Bad girls : young women, sex, and rebellion before the sixties / Amanda H. Littauer. - 1 edition. - Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) - Gender and American culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: what are we waiting for? -- Victory girls : sex, mobility, and adventure on the home front -- B-girls : soliciting drinks and negotiating sex in mid-century bars -- "Tearing off the veil" : responses to Kinsey's female report -- Going steady : permissiveness, petting, and premarital sex -- "Someone to love" : teen girls, same-sex desire, and contested meanings of immaturity in the 1950s -- Conclusion: feminist sexual futures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781469625195
Sex customs--History--United States--20th century.
Women--Sexual behavior--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
HQ18 / .B334 2015
Bad girls : young women, sex, and rebellion before the sixties / Amanda H. Littauer. - 1 edition. - Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) - Gender and American culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: what are we waiting for? -- Victory girls : sex, mobility, and adventure on the home front -- B-girls : soliciting drinks and negotiating sex in mid-century bars -- "Tearing off the veil" : responses to Kinsey's female report -- Going steady : permissiveness, petting, and premarital sex -- "Someone to love" : teen girls, same-sex desire, and contested meanings of immaturity in the 1950s -- Conclusion: feminist sexual futures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781469625195
Sex customs--History--United States--20th century.
Women--Sexual behavior--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
HQ18 / .B334 2015