title: Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age
author:  Susan K. Cahn 
description: Notwithstanding the <i>Gone with the Wind</i> imagery of southern womanhood, Cahn presents a portrait of coming-of-age during the years 1920-60 that was complicated by the social and economic turmoil of those decades. As the South moved from an agricultural to an industrial economy, quiet farm girls were suddenly smoking, buying makeup, and defying social conventions. If they strayed too far from the path, they were rounded up in girls' reformatories, where punishment ranged from beatings to forced sterilization. Cahn traces female adolescence in the South from the flapper era through Elvis Presley and rock and roll and the budding civil rights movement, and she points out the vast differences that race and class made in the judgment and treatment of female adolescent behavior. She examines the particularly volatile mixture of race and class for which the South has become famous, as the society struggled to control girls--black and white--to maintain racial purity and social conventions. This is a fascinating look at how young women fit into and affected southern patriarchy and notions of racial purity. <i>Vanessa Bush</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
zlib_text:  
  Small Town Sass
  By
  Breanna Hayse
  Copyright © 2013 by Stormy Night Publications and Breanna Hayse
  
   
  Copyright © 2013 by Stormy Night Publications and Breanna Hayse
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any
  means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage
  and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
  Published by Stormy Night Publications and Design, LLC.
  www.StormyNightPublications.com
  Hayse, Breanna
  Small Town Sass
  Cover Design by Korey Mae Johnson
  Images by BigStock (Tyler Olson) and The Killion Group
  This book is intended for adults only. Spanking and other sexual activities represented in this book
  are fantasies only, intended for adults.
  
  Dedication
  This story is dedicated to the real-life Nikki and Jeff, whose Indiana small town sass has brought
  them much love, happiness, and joy. Thank you for sharing your lives with me!
  
  Small Town Sass
  Nikki sighe