Littauer traces the origins of the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s, arguing that sexual liberation was much more than a reaction to 1950s repression because it involved the mainstreaming of a counterculture already on the rise. From World War II–era “victory girls” to teen lesbians in the 1940s and 1950s, nonconforming women and girls navigated and resisted intense social and interpersonal pressures to fit existing mores, using the upheavals of the era to pursue new sexual freedoms.