Prom night: youth, schools, and popular culture

1. Introduction: a night to remember.

2. Coming of age at the prom: adolescence and popular culture.

3. Fashioning the feminine: dresses, jewelry, hair, and more.

4. Romancing the prom: boyfriends, girlfriends, and "just friends".

5. Prom promises: rules and ruling: proms as sites of social control.

6. The divided dance floor: race in the school.

7. Breaking rules: contesting the prom.

8. Conclusion: learning to listen.