From the Book - First edition.
Introduction : Too many daughters
The girl standard : understanding the currency of daughters
Revolution and Republic : the antebellum North
Frozen in time : the antebellum South
The Four Hundred and beyond : Old New York
Transatlantic crossings: the Gilded Age
The bright young people : an old ritual at the dawn of the modern
Café society, celebrity, and conformity : 1930s-1980s
Prophets, krewes, and fiesta queens: the modern South
Creating a black elite : debutantes in African American society
Nouveau now : the debutante reimagined.
