Teenage Dreams : Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars, Hardcover by ...
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Teenage Dreams : Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars, Hardcover by .... Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (). Teenage Dreams : Girlhood Sexualities in the . Culture Wars, Hardcover by Jeffries, Charlie, ISBN 1978806809, ISBN-13 9781978806801, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The author explores why sexual behaviors and identities in girlhood became the focus of debate and discourse in the late 20th and early 21st centuries during the culture wars in the US. She examines how conversations about girlhood sexualities created ideological overlaps between conservatives and liberals during the period and were central to the construction of wider sexual mores. She discusses the discourse on teenage sex in the 1980s, especially in political cultures, including the moral panic over the perceived increase in teenage pregnancy rates, the racism involved, and the Reagan administration's anti-abortion efforts aimed at teenage girls; conversations about pornography and child sexual abuse, conservative attacks on young adult fiction writers and artists that used young women as subjects, and how girlhood vulnerability and whiteness were conflated in the rhetoric and imagery of these debates; the importance of sexuality in the girl culture of the 1990s, from its queer, grassroots beginnings, through how it was framed in popular culture in terms of whiteness, to the codification of "girl studies"; the political discourse on teenage sexuality during the Clinton administration in relation to Anita Hill, Jocelyn Elders, and Monica Lewinsky, as well as Clinton's welfare reforms and the antiracist and feminist activist efforts of teens; and the hypervisibility of girlhood sexualities in the culture wars of the Bush administration in relation to abstinence-only education, the HPV vaccine, teen pop culture, and youth activists' fight against the resurgence of conservatism in US politics. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()
