Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920
by
Mary E. Odem
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
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...