Exploring the gender, class and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late 19th- and early 20th-century America, Odem traces two distinct stages of moral reform. She also adresses the paradoxical consequences of reform by demonstrating that the protective measures advocated by middle-class women often resulted in coercive and discriminatory policies toward working-class girls.
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Exploring the gender, class and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late 19th- and early 20th-century America, Odem traces two distinct stages of moral reform. She also adresses the paradoxical consequences of reform by demonstrating that the protective measures advocated by middle-class women often resulted in coercive and discriminatory policies toward working-class girls.
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Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 288 p. Contains: Illustrations. Gender and American Culture. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 95013185 Type of material Book Personal name Odem, Mary E. Main title Delinquent daughters: protecting and policing adolescent female sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 / Mary E. Odem. Published/Created Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1995. Description xiv, 265 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 0807822159 (cl. : alk. paper) 0807845280 (pbk. : alk. paper) LC classification HQ27.5. O34 1995 Subjects Teenage girls--Sexual behavior--United States--History. Sexual ethics--United States--History. Social problems--United States--History. Social control--United States--History. Middle class--United States--Attitudes--History. Working class--Sexual behavior--United States--History. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-253) and index. Series Gender & American culture Dewey class no. 306.7/0835 Geographic area code n-us---