"Girl Problem Female Sexual Delinquency in New York, 1900-1930

"Reading this book was astonishingly like reading this morning's newspaper. Alarm over teen sexual and reproductive habits! Policy battles over out-of-wedlock children! Dismay over the morals of people in housing projects! There certainly are some fascinating parallels...Alexander's study of turn-of-the-century 'wayward' girls confined in New York reformatories is a complex and wide-ranging analysis...Exposing hypocritical moral judgments as they apply to young women is a particular virtue of this book...Alexander, Ruth M. is the author of '"Girl Problem Female Sexual Delinquency in New York, 1900-1930' with ISBN 9780801428210 and ISBN 0801428211.