Marshall on Nash, 'American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture'
Ilana Nash. American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006. x + 264 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-21802-5.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Marshall (Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University) Published on H-Childhood (September, 2007)
Mittman on Hensel, 'Zonenkinder' and Rusch, 'Meine freie deutsche Jugend'
Jana Hensel. Zonenkinder. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 2002. 172 pp. (broschiert), ISBN 978-3-499-23532-0.Claudia Rusch. Meine freie deutsche Jugend. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 2003. 156 pp. (gebunden), ISBN 978-3-10-066058-9.
Ganaway on Seiffert, 'The Dark Room: A Novel'
Rachel Seiffert. The Dark Room: A Novel. New York: Vintage Books, 2001. 278 pp. $13.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-375-72632-3.
Reviewed by Bryan Ganaway (Department of History, Presbyterian College) Published on H-German (March, 2005)
Bell-Gam on Adichie, 'Purple Hibiscus'
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Purple Hibiscus. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2003. 307 pp. $23.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-56512-387-8.
Reviewed by Ruby A. Bell-Gam (University of California, Los Angeles) Published on H-AfrTeach (December, 2004)
The Best Things in Life
Seidel on Rawlings, 'Blood of My Blood'
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Blood of My Blood. Edited by Anne Blythe Meriwether. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xvi + 170 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2443-1.
Reviewed by Kathryn Lee Seidel (Department of English, University of Central Florida) Published on H-Florida (April, 2002)
Mothering Marjorie: Rawlings' First Novel
DeChaine on Leblanc, 'Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture'
Lauraine Leblanc. Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xii + 288 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8135-2651-5.
Reviewed by D. Robert DeChaine (Department of Cultural Studies, The Claremont Graduate University ) Published on H-PCAACA (August, 2000)
Don't You Know that It's Different for Girls?
Don't You Know that It's Different for Girls?
Entin on Michael, 'Sex in America: A Definitive Survey' and Thompson, 'Going All the Way: Teenage Girls' Tales of Sex, Romance and Pregnancy'
Robert T. Michael. Sex in America: A Definitive Survey. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994. viii + 300 pp. $22.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-316-07524-4.Sharon Thompson. Going All the Way: Teenage Girls' Tales of Sex, Romance and Pregnancy. New York: Hill & Wang, 1995. x + 340 pp. $24.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8090-5021-5.
