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Delinquent daughters : protecting and policing adolescent female sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920

Author: Mary E Odem
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995.
Series: Gender & American culture.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Mary Odem looks at these moral reform movements from a national perspective, but she also undertakes a detailed analysis of court records to explore the local enforcement of regulatory legislation in Alameda and Los Angeles Counties in  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Odem, Mary E.
Delinquent daughters.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1995
(OCoLC)652134583
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mary E Odem
ISBN: 0807822159 9780807822159 0807845280 9780807845288
OCLC Number: 32237090
Description: xiv, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Ch. 1. "White Slaves" and "Vicious Men": The Age-of-Consent Campaign --
Ch. 2. Teenage Girls, Sexuality, and Working-class Parents --
Ch. 3. Statutory Rape Prosecutions in California --
Ch. 4. The "Delinquent Girl" and Progressive Reform --
Ch. 5. Maternal Justice in the Juvenile Court --
Ch. 6. "This Terrible Freedom": Generational Conflicts in Working-class Families.
Series Title: Gender & American culture.
Responsibility: Mary E. Odem.
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Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Mary Odem looks at these moral reform movements from a national perspective, but she also undertakes a detailed analysis of court records to explore the local enforcement of regulatory legislation in Alameda and Los Angeles Counties in California. From these legal proceedings emerge overlapping and often contradictory views of middle-class female reformers, court and law enforcement officials, working-class teenage girls, and the girls' parents.

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