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edited by Sherrie A. Inness.; :ill. ;24 cm; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Introduction -- Part I Law, Discipline, and Socialization -- Making a Girl into a Scout: Americanizing Scouting for Girls / Laureen Tedesco -- Rate Your Date: Young Women and the Commodification of Depression Era Courtship / Mary C. McComb -- Truculent and Tractable: The Gendering of Babysitting in Postwar America / Miriam Formanek-Brunell -- Female Juvenile Delinquency and the Problem of Sexual Authority in America, 1945-1965 / Rachel Devin -- Part II The Girl Consumer -- Little Girls Bound: Costume and Coming of Age in the Sears Catalog 1906-1927 / Rhona Justice-Malloy -- “Teena Means Business”: Teenage Girls’ Culture and Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1950 / Kelly Schrum -- “Anti-Barbies”: The American Girls Collection and Political Ideologies / Sherrie A. Inness -- Boys-R-Us: Board Games and the Socialization of Young Adolescent Girls / Jennifer Scanlon -- Part III Re-Imagining Girlhood -- The Flapper and the Chaperone: Cultural Constructions of Identity and Heterosexual Politics among Adolescent Mexican American Women, 1920-1950 / Vicki L. Ruiz -- Fictions of Assimilation: Nancy Drew, Cultural Imperialism, and the Filipina/American Experience / Melinda L. de Jesus -- “No Place For a Girl Dick”: Mabel Maney and the Queering of Girls’ Detective Fiction / Julia D. Gardner -- Can Anne Shirley Help “Revive Ophelia”? Listening to Girl Readers / Angela E. Hubler -- Producing Girls: Rethinking the Study of Female Youth Culture / Mary Celeste Kearney., Source type: Electronic(1)