2015
DOI: 10.7202/1032803ar
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“Some thought they were ‘in Love’”: Sex, White Teenagehood, and Unmarried Pregnancy in Early Postwar Canada

Abstract: This article explores the culture of postwar heterosexuality as it impacted (mainly) white girls who were teens between 1945 and the early 1960s. It explores the prevalence of, and changing opportunities for teenage sex, the issue of sexual desire, and the nature of girls’ partners and relationships. Based on this exploration, it argues that opportunities for teen sex were expanding, that girls’ partners were more often other teens, and because of this and the age-consciousness of the times, that marriage was … Show more

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