Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars

by Charlie Jeffries

Utilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Teenage Dreams examines the race- and class-inflected battles over adolescent women's sexual and reproductive lives in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century United States. Charlie Jeffries finds that most adults in this period hesitated to advocate for adolescent sexual and reproductive rights, revealing a new culture war altogether--one between adults of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978806795
• ISBN13: 9781978806795
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher