Title Teenage dreams : girlhood sexualities in the U.S. culture wars / Charlie Jeffries

Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 226 pages) Contents Teenage girls and the new right -- Women and children? Sexual speech and sexual harm -- Explicit content: cultures of girlhood -- The third wave and the third way -- Medicine, education, and sexualization -- Epilogue: girlhood sexualities in the contemporary culture wars Summary "Utilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Teenage Dreams examines the race- and class-inflected battles over adolescent women's sexual and reproductive lives in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century United States. Charlie Jeffries finds that most adults in this period hesitated to advocate for adolescent sexual and reproductive rights, revealing a new culture war altogether--one between adults of various political stripes in the cultural mainstream who prioritized the desire to delay girlhood sexual experience at all costs, and adults who remained culturally underground in their support for teenagers' access to frank sexual information, and who would dare to advocate for this in public. The book tells the story of how the latter group of adults fought alongside teenagers themselves, who constituted a large and increasingly visible part of this activism. The history of the debates over teenage sexual behavior reveals unexpected alliances in American political battles, and sheds new light on the resurgence of the right in the US in recent years"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed October 3, 2022) Subject Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- Public opinion Reproductive rights -- United States Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior -- United States Teenage girls -- United States -- Attitudes Teenage girls -- United States -- Social conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Reproductive rights Teenage girls -- Attitudes Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior -- Public opinion Teenage girls -- Social conditions United States Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book ISBN 1978806833 9781978806818 1978806817 9781978806825 1978806825 9781978806832

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