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Bad Girls Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties
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Bad Girls Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties
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University of North Carolina Press
publication year
2015
description
Amanda Littauer argues Bad Girls that wartime sexual experimentation magnified the limited independence women had claimed during the 1920s and anticipated the explicit demands for sexual autonomy in the late 1960s and 1970s. She grounds her account in the turn to popular culture and consumerism after postwar demobilization, which contrary to popular belief did not lead to a conservative retrenchment. On the contrary, Littauer shows how writers, juvenile courts, and other reform agencies worried about a mid-century sexual revolution. Young women, queer and straight continued to experiment with their sexualities throughout the 1950s, encouraging readers think differently about the era.
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reviewer
Leo Valdes
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Littauer, Amanda H.