Credits ix
Introduction 1
1. "Something Happens to Girls": Menarche and the Emergence of the
Modern American Hygienic Imperative 15
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
2. "Putting on Style" 43
Kathy Peiss
3. Single Mothers, Delinquent Daughters, and the Juvenile Court in
Early 20th Century Los Angeles 64
Mary Odem
4. The Adventures of Peanut and Bo: Summer Camps and
Early-Twentieth-Century American Girlhood 84
Leslie Paris
5. First Steps: The Second Generation, 1920s 109
Judy Yung
6. "Oh the Bliss": Fashion and Teenage Girls 135
Kelly Schrum
7. "Star Struck": Acculturation, Adolescence, and Mexican American
Women, 1920-1950 160
Vicki L. Ruiz
8. Radical Notions: Nancy Drew and Her Readers,
1930-1949 182
Ilana Nash
9. The Oedipal Age: Postwar Psychoanalysis Reinterprets the
Adolescent Girl 217
Rachel Devlin
10. Imagined Bobby-Soxer Babysitters and the Uses of Girls' Work
Culture 242
Miriam Forman-Brunell
11. Why the Shirelles Mattered 266
Susan J. Douglas
12. "Double Forces Has Got the Beat": Reclaiming Girls' Music in
the Sport of Double-Dutch 279
Kyra D. Gaunt
13. Riot Grrrl: It's Not Just Music, It's Not Just Punk
300
Mary Celeste Kearney
Contributors 317
Index 321
A pioneering, field-defining collection of essential texts exploring girlhood in the twentieth century
Miriam Forman-Brunell is a professor of history at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and the author of Babysitter: An American History and other works. Leslie Paris is an associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia and the author of Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp.
"This sparkling reader defines the field of girls' history and gathers its emerging canon. There are no better scholars than Miriam Forman-Brunell and Leslie Paris to have a pulse on the scholarship, anticipate its future directions, and provide a model of academic collaboration." Eileen Boris, co-editor of The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Dialogues, and Intersections
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