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Regulating desire : from the virtuous maiden to the purity princess / J. Shoshanna Ehrlich

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Ehrlich, J. Shoshanna
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Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Ch. 1 Predatory Men and Virtuous Maidens: Saving Young Women from Ruinous Seduction -- ch. 2 Protecting Her Most Prized Possession: The Campaign to Raise the Age of Sexual Consent -- ch. 3 Responding to the "Girl Problem": The Emergence of the Female Sexual Delinquent -- ch. 4 Our Daughters Are Having Babies: The Fashioning of a Public Response to the Teen Pregnancy "Epidemic" -- ch. 5 Our Daughters Are Having Sex: The Conservative Pushback against Teen "Promiscuity."
Summary
Covers five distinct time periods in which changing social conditions generated considerable public anxiety about youthful female sexuality and examines how successive generations of reformers sought to revise the law in an effort to manage unruly desires and restore a gendered social order.--Provided by publisher.
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ISBN
9781438453064 (electronic bk.)
143845306X (electronic bk.)
9781438453057
1438453051
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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