Bad girls : young women, sex, and rebellion before the sixties / Amanda H. Littauer.

Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]

xiii, 259 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: what are we waiting for? -- Victory girls : sex, mobility, and adventure on the home front -- B-girls : soliciting drinks and negotiating sex in mid-century bars -- "Tearing off the veil" : responses to Kinsey's female report -- Going steady : permissiveness, petting, and premarital sex -- "Someone to love" : teen girls, same-sex desire, and contested meanings of immaturity in the 1950s -- Conclusion: feminist sexual futures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.