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Female adolescence in American scientific thought, 1830-1930 /

"In this study, Crista DeLuzio asks how scientific experts conceptualized female adolescence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Revisiting figures like G. Stanley Hall and Margaret Mead and casting her net across the disciplines of biology, psychology, and anthropology, DeLuzio ex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DeLuzio, Crista, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Colección:New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In this study, Crista DeLuzio asks how scientific experts conceptualized female adolescence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Revisiting figures like G. Stanley Hall and Margaret Mead and casting her net across the disciplines of biology, psychology, and anthropology, DeLuzio examines the process by which youthful femininity in America became a contested cultural category."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 330 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-322) and index.
ISBN:9780801895913
080189591X