Delinquent Daughters Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920

Exploring the gender, class and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late 19th- and early 20th-century America, Odem traces two distinct stages of moral reform. She also adresses the paradoxical consequences of reform by demonstrating that the protective measures advocated by middle-class women often resulted in coercive and discriminatory policies toward working-class girls.Odem, Mary E. is the author of 'Delinquent Daughters Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920' with ISBN 9780807822159 and ISBN 0807822159.