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.
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.