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American sweethearts : teenage girls in twentieth-century popular culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nash, Ilana
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Drew, Nancy > (Fictitious character)
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Girls in literature.
Young adult fiction, American > History and criticism.
Teenage girls > Books and reading > United States.
Teenage girls in popular culture.
Teenage girls in motion pictures.
Teenage girls in literature.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Radical notions : Nancy Drew and her readers, 1930-1949
  • "Pretty baby" : Nancy Drew goes to Hollywood
  • "Delightfully dangerous" girls in the 1940s
  • The postwar fall and rise of teen girls.