Natalie Guice Adams is director of New College and professor of social and cultural studies in education at The University of Alabama. She is coauthor of Cheerleader!: An American Icon and coeditor of Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between. She has published in Girlhood Studies and Critical Studies of Southern Place.
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