Summary Of Bad Girls By Prof. Littauer

The reception was held to highlight Prof. Littauer’s new book called Bad Girls. This book was described by experts in the field as fresh, organized, and beautifully written. The main purpose of Bad Girls is to inform students and scholars about young women, sex, and rebellion before the sixties, which examines the origins of the 1960’s sexual revolution. Prof. Littauer stated that, the book is relates to adolescent girls and young women in the United States during the1940’s to the 1960’s who refuse to act a certain way as it relates to formal sexual standards. These refusal acts had an impact on the sexual culture of the mid-century as well as it propelled the sexual revolution that followed in the 1960 to the 1970s. She explained that the book started with stories of actual girls and young women who had done these acts. These women and girls suffered a lot as a result of the sexual culture changes after World War II. These women and girls highlighted the deceitfulness of double standard by revealing the force of heterosexual norms and avoiding adult control over their lives. Hence, they contributed new idea of scientific studies about sexuality.
Thus, to express their beliefs of individualism, morality and pleasure in the sexual life of modern society. They rebelled and broke rules against the normal sexual culture of girls and women having sexual interactions within marriage. Girls and women who did these sex rebellions faced stereotyping and isolation. I believed she focused on adolescent girls and young women to show the readers that women sexuality has some influence on understanding sexual culture during the 20th century in the United