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

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Ehrlich, J. Shoshanna

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781438453064
143845306X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Regulating desireDDC classification:

176/.4 23

LOC classification:

HQ29 .E355 2014eb

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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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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