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I found these fantastic WWII sources the other week as I was thinking about my sexual politics class. This 4 part series in the SF examiner warns about the sexual and moral dangers of women going to bars. #histsex #twitterstorians 
To appreciate the work these articles are doing to police sexuality and gender among young women, you can read @AmandaLittauer's essential book, "Bad Girls" from @uncpressblog. Judge this book by the amazing cover!
uncpress.org/book/978146962…
uncpress.org/book/978146962…
The ways in which these articles, authored by a woman, reveals midcentury sexual transformations and conflicting gender and sexual values is absolutely fascinating.
I can imagine inviting students to think about whether the author's descriptions are prescriptive or descriptive (or both). We might debate the reliability of the source. We could even imagine how the women described by the article might narrate their own experiences.
We could also use these sources to think about the role of nightlife and pleasure in the histories of sexual and gender expression and regulation. In short, we could get into central debates about pleasure and danger that animate #histsex.
