Relative intimacy
Subtitle: fathers, adolescent daughters, and postwar American culture
By: Rachel Devlin.
Series: Gender and American culture; Gender & American culture.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Teenage girls -- Family relationships; Fathers and daughters; Fathers and daughters in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Oedipal age: postwar psychoanalysis reinterprets the adolescent girl; title: Delinquent girls and the crisis of paternal authority in the postwar United States; title: Adolescent authorities: teenage girls, consumerism, and the cultural transformation of fatherhood; title: Coming-of-age: a paternal rite of passage, 1948-1965; title: Affection, identification, skepticism: situating men in relationship to adolescent daughters.