Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-244) and index.
The Oedipal age: postwar psychoanalysis reinterprets the adolescent girl -- Delinquent girls and the crisis of paternal authority in the postwar United States -- Adolescent authorities: teenage girls, consumerism, and the cultural transformation of fatherhood -- Coming-of-age: a paternal rite of passage, 1948-1965 -- Affection, identification, skepticism: situating men in relationship to adolescent daughters.
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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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Relative intimacy.
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Fathers and daughters in literature.
Fathers and daughters.
Teenage girls-- Family relationships.
Adolescentes-- Relations familiales.
Complexe d'Électre.
Pères et filles dans la littérature.
Pères et filles.
Complexe d'Électre.
Familienbeziehung
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Life Stages-- Adolescence.