Relative Intimacy : Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture.


Rachel. Devlin
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Chapel Hill : : University of North Carolina Press, , 2005.
Omfang
1 online resource (270 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The Oedipal Age: Postwar Psychoanalysis Reinterprets the Adolescent Girl; CHAPTER 2 Delinquent Girls and the Crisis of Paternal Authority in the Postwar United States; CHAPTER 3 Adolescent Authorities: Teenage Girls, Consumerism, and the Cultural Transformation of Fatherhood; CHAPTER 4 Coming-of-Age: A Paternal Rite of Passage, 1948–1965; CHAPTER 5 Affection, Identification, Skepticism: Situating Men in Relation to Adolescent Daughters; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index;. - Rachel Devlin argues that postwar culture fostered a father-daughter relationship characterized by new forms of psychological intimacy. The pervasiveness of depictions of father-adolescent daughter eroticism on all levels of culture raises questions about the extent of girls' independence and the character of fatherhood during the 40s and 50s.
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Fathers and daughters
Fathers and daughters in literature
Teenage girls - Family relationships
Social Science.
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ISBN
0807829463. - 0807856053

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