Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth-century American Girls' CulturesSherrie A. Inness The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experiences of what it means to be a girl, and later a woman, in our society. The essays address such topics as board games and the socialization of adolescent girls, dolls and political ideologies, Nancy Drew and the Filipina American experience, the queering of girls' detective fiction, and female juvenile delinquency to demonstrate how cultural discourses shape both the young and teenage girl in America. |
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Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth-century American Girls' Cultures Sherrie A. Inness Limited preview - 1998 |
Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures Sherrie A. Inness Limited preview - 1998 |
Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth-Century American Girls' Cultures Sherrie A. Inness Limited preview - 1998 |