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Winter, 2006
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REVIEWS

SECTION 2
GENDER ISSUES

Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920–1945. By Kelly Schrum (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xii plus 209 pp. $29.95).
While many historians have discussed teenagers and the formation of teen culture in the post-WWII era, Kelly Schrum pushes the periodization back and adds a distinct gender dimension to the literature in Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920–1945. In fact, Schrum argues, girls were the original "teenagers" as the concept developed in the interwar period, linked closely to their role as consumers. Schrum also links "teenager" with "high-schooler": just as experts and society at large came to view adolescence as a distinct time between childhood and adulthood, high school attendance increased dramatically, providing the opportunity for girls to fashion their own identity away from adult interference. Schrum examines the fashion and beauty industries, as well as popular music, dance, and movies to find the ways in which high school girls integrated products and messages in specifically "teen" ways, creating in the process, she argues, a new national teenaged girls' culture. . . .
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