Acknowledgments -- Introduction: what are we waiting for? -- Victory girls : sex, mobility, and adventure on the home front -- B-girls : soliciting drinks and negotiating sex in mid-century bars -- "Tearing off the veil" : responses to Kinsey's female report -- Going steady : permissiveness, petting, and premarital sex -- "Someone to love" : teen girls, same-sex desire, and contested meanings of immaturity in the 1950s -- Conclusion: feminist sexual futures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
This title looks at mid-century American sex and culture. It traces the origins of the 'sexual revolution' of the 1960s. The book argues that sexual liberation was much more than a reaction to 1950s repression because it largely involved the mainstreaming of a counterculture already on the rise among girls and young women decades earlier
