Regulating Desire: From the Virtuous Maiden to the Purity Princess
Author:   J. Shoshanna Ehrlich
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438453057


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 November 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Regulating Desire: From the Virtuous Maiden to the Purity Princess


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Examines the organized efforts to reshape the law relating to young women's sexuality in the United States.

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Author:   J. Shoshanna Ehrlich
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9781438453057


ISBN 10:   1438453051
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 November 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Predatory Men and Virtuous Maidens: Saving Young Women from Ruinous Seduction 2. Protecting Her Most Prized Possession: The Campaign to Raise the Age of Sexual Consent 3. Responding to the ""Girl Problem"": The Emergence of the Female Sexual Delinquent 4. Our Daughters Are Having Babies: The Fashioning of a Public Response to the Teen Pregnancy ""Epidemic"" 5. Our Daughters Are Having Sex: The Conservative Pushback against Teen ""Promiscuity"" Notes Bibliography Index"

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Extremely thorough and very enjoyable to read, this book provides an authoritative scholarly voice on its subject matter. - Alesha E. Doan, coauthor of The Politics of Virginity: Abstinence in Sex Education


Author Information

J. Shoshanna Ehrlich is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Family Law for Paralegals, Sixth Edition and Who Decides? The Abortion Rights of Teens.

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