TY - BOOK AU - Littauer,Amanda H. TI - Bad girls: young women, sex, and rebellion before the sixties T2 - Gender and American culture SN - 9781469625195 AV - HQ18.U5 L528 2015eb U1 - 306.7082 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Sex customs KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Women KW - Sexual behavior KW - Sexual Behavior KW - history KW - Gender Identity KW - Vie sexuelle KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - Femmes KW - Sexualité KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy KW - Cultural Policy KW - bisacsh KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural KW - Popular Culture KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=978186 ER -