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

Nash, Ilana.

American sweethearts : teenage girls in twentieth-century popular culture / Ilana Nash. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006. - viii, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and index.

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.

0253346592 (alk. paper) 0253218020 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2005009297


American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Girls in literature.
Young adult fiction, American--History and criticism.
Teenage girls--Books and reading--United States.
Drew, Nancy (Fictitious character)
Teenage girls in popular culture.
Teenage girls in motion pictures.
Teenage girls in literature.
Culture in motion pictures.

PS374.G55 / N37 2006

813/.50935252

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