Female Adolescent Sexuality in the United States, 1850–1965 – PDF

Female Adolescent Sexuality in the United States, 1850–1965, (PDF) takes a look at the history of female adolescent sexuality in the United States from the middle of the 19th century till the start of the 1960s. The ebook examines both adult understandings of female adolescent sexuality and the experiences of female teenagers themselves. It explores what ladies understood (or believed they understood) about sex at various points in time, ladies’ concepts about love and love, ladies’ sexual experiences, female adolescent charm culture, and the effect of pop culture on female adolescent sexuality. It likewise research studies the methods in which grownups responded to female adolescent sexuality and the efforts of grownups to either motivate or manage ladies’ interest in sexual subjects, ladies’ involvement in charm culture, dating, and their education on sexual subjects. The ebook explains a trajectory along which female teenagers went from being viewed as innately innocent and basically nonsexual to being thought about (and feared) as mainly sexual in nature.

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“In this thorough synthesis of adolescent ladies’ sexuality in the United States, Ann Kordas is particularly skilled at consisting of experiences of ladies of color into an overarching story. Drawing on examples from pop culture and likewise ladies’ own actions and works, this is a need to-checked out for historians of sexuality and girlhood.” — Nicholas L. Syrett, author of American Child Bride: A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States “In this appealing research study, Ann Kordas masterfully traces the methods in which significances and experiences of female adolescent sexuality took shape in association to bigger currents of financial, social, and cultural modification from the middle of the 19th century to the early 1960s. Kordas develops that there was no scarcity of specialist suggestions, adult stress and anxiety, , and cultural fascination concerning ladies’ sexual habits throughout this 100-year duration. She likewise listens diligently to the abundant and differed voices of ladies themselves, supplying fresh insight into what ladies from varied backgrounds believed, wanted, felt, and experienced when browsing a romantic and sexual surface marked by ever-moving procedures of satisfaction and threat, restraint and possibility.” — Crista DeLuzio, Southern Methodist University NOTE: The item consists of the ebook, Female Adolescent Sexuality in the United States, 1850–1965 in PDF. No access codes are consisted of.