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"This book studies the development of expressions of female adolescent sexuality in the United States from 1850 to 1965. It suggests that during this time, adolescent girls went from being perceived as innocent, asexual beings to beings that were considered primarily sexual in nature"--

American Government is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester American Government course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including Insider Perspective features and a Get Connected module that shows students how they can get engaged in the political process. The book provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of American Government and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. Senior Contributing Authors: Glen Krutz, University of Oklahoma Sylvie Waskiewicz, Ph.D. Contributing Authors: Joel Webb, Tulane University Shawn Williams, Campbellsville University Rhonda Wrzenski, Indiana University Southeast Tonya Neaves, George Mason University Adam Newmark, Appalachian State University Brooks D. Simpson, Arizona State University Prosper Bernard, Jr., City University of New York Jennifer Danley-Scott, Texas Woman's University Ann Kordas, Johnson and Wales University Christopher Lawrence, Middle Georgia State College

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Toward Political Agency for Girls: Mapping the Discourses of Girlhood Globally -- Introduction -- 1. American Jewish Girls and the Politics of Identity, 1860–1920 -- 2. Growing Up in Colonial Algeria: The Case of Assia Djebar -- 3. Immigrant Girls in Multicultural Amsterdam: Juggling Ambivalent Cultural Messages -- 4. Feminist Girls, Lesbian Comrades: Performances of Critical Girlhood in Taiwan Pop Music -- Introduction -- 5. Girlhood Memories and the Politics of Justice in Post-Rosas Argentina: The Restitution Suit of Olalla Alvarez -- 6. "A Case of Peculiar and Unusual Interest": The Egg Inspectors Union, the AFL, and the British Ministry of Food Confront "Negro Girl" Egg Candlers -- 7. "Life Is a Succession of Disappointments": A Soviet Girl Contends with the Stalinist Dictatorship -- 8. Fragilities and Failures, Promises and Patriotism: Elements of Second World War English and American Girlhood, 1939–1945 -- 9. Holy Girl Power Locally and Globally: The Marian Visions of Garabandal, Spain -- 10. Rebels, Robots, and All-American Girls: The Ideological Use of Images of Girl Gymnasts during the Cold War -- Introduction -- 11. Palestinian Girls and the British Missionary Enterprise, 1847–1948 -- 12. "The Right Kind of Ambition": Discourses of Femininity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1895–1910 -- 13. Stolen Girlhood: Australia's Assimilation Policies and Aboriginal Girls -- 14. Fathers, Daughters, and Institutions: Coming of Age in Mombasa's Colonial Schools -- 15. Mothers of Warriors: Girls in a Youth Debate of Interwar Iraq -- 16. "'Homemaker' Can Include the World": Female Citizenship and Internationalism in the Postwar Camp Fire Girls -- Introduction -- 17. From Chattel to "Breeding Wenches": Abolitionism, Girlhood, and Jamaican Slavery -- 18. Girls, Labor, and Sex in Precolonial Egypt, 1850–1882 -- 19. Defiant Daughters and the Emancipation of Minors in Nineteenth-Century Mexico -- 20. The Shifting Status of Middle-Class Malay Girlhood: From "Sisters" to "Sinners" in One Generation -- Contributors -- Index