Relative intimacy : fathers, adolescent daughters, and postwar American culture / Rachel Devlin.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005], ©2005.

ix, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-244) and index.

The Oedipal age: postwar psychoanalysis reinterprets the adolescent girl -- Delinquent girls and the crisis of paternal authority in the postwar United States -- Adolescent authorities: teenage girls, consumerism, and the cultural transformation of fatherhood -- Coming-of-age: a paternal rite of passage, 1948-1965 -- Affection, identification, skepticism: situating men in relationship to adolescent daughters.