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Some Wore Bobby Sox

The Emergence of Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920-1945

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Authors:
  1. Kelly Schrum
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Part of the book series: Girls' History and Culture (GHC)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Kelly Schrum
    Pages 1-10
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  3. Emergence of Teenage Girls

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    Pages 11-21
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  4. “Oh the Bliss”

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    Pages 23-68
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  5. “Good Looks”

    • Kelly Schrum
    Pages 69-96
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  6. “Damn Good Jazz”

    • Kelly Schrum
    Pages 97-127
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  7. “A Guiding Factor in My Life”

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    Pages 129-168
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  8. Conclusion

    • Kelly Schrum
    Pages 169-174
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  9. Epilogue

    • Kelly Schrum
    Pages 175-178
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  10. Back Matter

    Pages 179-209
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About this book

Images of teenage girls in poodle skirts dominated American popular culture on the 1950's. But as Kelly Schrum shows, teenage girls were swooning over pop idols and using their allowances to buy the latest fashions well beforehand. After World War I, a teenage identity arose in the US, as well as a consumer culture geared toward it. From fashion and beauty to music and movies, high school girls both consumed and influenced what manufacturers, marketers, and retailers offered to them. Examining both national trends and individual lives, Schrum looks at the relationship between the power of consumer culture and the ability of girls to selectively accept, reject, and appropriate consumer goods. Lavishly illustrated with images from advertisements, catalogs, and high school year books, Some Wore Bobby Sox is a unique and fascinating cultural history of teenage girl culture in the middle of the century.

About the author

Kelly Schrum is Assistant Director of the Center for History and New Media, and Assistant Research Professor, Department of History and Art History, at George Mason University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Some Wore Bobby Sox

  • Book Subtitle: The Emergence of Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920-1945

  • Authors: Kelly Schrum

  • Series Title: Girls' History and Culture

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-73134-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7397-9Published: 24 July 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-73134-3Published: 12 June 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2945-7718

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-7726

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 209

  • Topics: US History, Modern History, Regional and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

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