Utilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists,
and policymakers, Teenage Dreams examines the race- and
class-inflected battles over adolescent women’s sexual and
reproductive lives in the late twentieth and early twenty-first
century United States. Charlie Jeffries finds that most adults in
this period hesitated to advocate for adolescent sexual and
reproductive rights, revealing a new culture war altogether--one
between adults of various political stripes in the cultural
mainstream who prioritized the desire to delay girlhood sexual
experience at all costs, and adults who remained culturally
underground in their support for teenagers’ access to frank
sexual information, and who would dare to advocate for this in
public. The book tells the story of how the latter group of adults
fought alongside teenagers themselves, who constituted a large and
increasingly visible part of this activism. The history of the
debates over teenage sexual behavior reveals unexpected alliances
in American political battles, and sheds new light on the
resurgence of the right in the US in recent years.
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