Introduction: Sex and Shirley Temple

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Sex and Shirley Temple 1
5. 1. America’s Sweethearts: Mary Pickford, Shirley Temple, and the “Decline of Sentiment” 25
6. 2. “A Terrible Amour”: Child Loving in the Twentieth Century 55
7. 3. Immaculate Amalgamation: Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple 77
8. 4. Baby Burlesks and Kiddie Kabarets: Children’s Erotic Impersonations 107
9. 5. Economic Innocence: The Paradox of the Performing Child 131
10. Epilogue 149
11. Notes 153
12. Index 171
13. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 175